Safety Near the Father

Several months ago our family went to a swimming pool. I was down in the deep end by the diving board swimming around, and my four-year-old, Savannah, ...

Sensitive Demands

I took my two youngest kids to the Batavia quarry on my day off a week ago. It has a beautiful sand beach with shallow water. Or you can go out into the ...

A Vision of Fatherly Love

At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, the world watched as a parable of the father's love was played out on international television.

As the gun ...

Gentle Discipline

Out of parental concern and a desire to teach our young son responsibility, we require him to phone home when he arrives at his friend's house a few ...

Where's Mommy?

My six-year-old son seems to demand my attention just when I am most busy around the house. My standard reply has been, "I'm busy right now. ...

What Do We Expect?

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by ...

Parental Responsibility

Renew your hope; love your family. Raise your children, don't abandon them. Cats raise kittens. Dogs raise puppies. Eagles raise their eaglets. Surely ...

Savoring the Moment

One blustery weekend I was strolling with my little boy on an Atlantic beach. We were scaling clamshells into the onshore wind and watching them curve ...

Worship Begins at Home

In early America, home was a sanctuary of worship; the father was the priest of his own household; the open Bible was the sourcebook for Christian worship, ...