by Robbin Montero | Family
Yes, brides, this is your day, but it is also the first day of the rest of your lives together as a couple and as members of each others’ families. Weddings can bring out the best and worst in families. Brides who have always had good relationships with her...
by Dr. Stephen Ruppenthal | Family
It is almost a truism to say that, since our parents gave us life and devoted themselves to our care when we were helpless, now as they struggle, physically or mentally, our duty is to give back. If your parents are entering the phase where they need your care or soon...
by Bobbi DePorter | Family
These are challenging and disruptive times for all of us – wars, the environment, the economy – and our kids, particularly teens, are being affected, as well. Everywhere they turn there is talk of how bad things are and they take it in. Teens may give the...
by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller | Family
Are you at all interested in raising a thirty-year-old Nintendo player who lies around your house all day eating cold pizza and sucking up Diet Pepsi? Probably not. If you’re like many of the parents who attend our parenting workshops, creating a thirty-year-old...
by Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller | Family
Many parents do not know how, do not want to, or lack the communication skills necessary to talk to their children about money in general. So when a money crisis develops, the potential to pass fearful and negative attitudes towards money to the next generation...
by Dr. Marvin Marshall | Family
Traditional child disciplining approaches are no longer successful for far too many young people. For example, a parent related the following to me after a discussion of how society and youth have changed in recent generations: The other day, my teenage daughter was...
by Emily Sue Harvey | Family
History itself affirms that the family is the foundation of society. It is the glue that holds together civilization itself. Block by block, it builds nations. But the most important place for family is inside each of us; it is who we are. We’re living in days...
