The Under-Appreciated Home-cooked Meal

Research shared by The Smithsonian highlights something that stay-at-home mom's have felt for a long time: home-cooking is a burden on women and under-appreciated ...

Props for Making Bread Illustrate Parenting

Here's an object lesson that you can use to explain how our children inherit a sinful nature, and how it is activated, tempting them to act on their ...

Research Shows Youth Need Three Key Relationships

What factors help Christian youth maintain their faith into adulthood? A major research project called the National Study of Youth and Religion found ...

Husbands vs. Kids: Who Stresses Mom Out More?

From an article on Today: "An exclusive [survey] of more than 7,000 U.S. mothers reveals that the average mom rates her stress level an 8.5 out of ...

How Kids View Their Parents' Stress and Anger

Second-hand stress is a big problem for kids. In a survey, researcher Ellen Galinsky interviewed more than 1,000 children in grades 3-12 and asked them, ...

Leaving Children Alone in a Chemistry Lab

Leaving children to discover their own values is a little like putting them in a chemistry lab full of volatile substances and saying, "Discover ...

Inner City Mom Fights Off a Gang

Mary Thomas was a single mom of nine children living in Chicago's rough West Side neighborhood. Seven of Mary's nine kids were boys, young men ...

Novelist Describes the Pain of Miscarriage

In Elizabeth Strout's novel The Burgess Boys, a young woman named Susan has a miscarriage. After learning that the baby was a girl, her husband tries ...

Survey Finds Worth of Moms' "Salary"

If stay-at-home moms earned an annual salary for all the jobs they perform on a daily basis, how much would they earn?

We've released the results of ...

Foster Mom Is Called 'The Baby Whisperer'

Becky O'Connell has been given a unique unofficial title—"The Baby Whisperer." Officially, the 65-year-old woman is a temporary foster ...