We’ve all heard that life upon the wicked stage is a difficult career, full of rejection, brief highs, and lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Getting into a college bachelor…
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Raising children of character in an indulgent age can be difficult so Dan Kindlon, author of Too Much of a Good Thing, offers parents guidance not only on how to…
“Obviously not all teachers are parents but all parents are teachers…When we teach kids to be good people we help the world becomes a safer, saner, more equitable place for…
Planning College Campus Visits? 3 Important Criteria to Look for in Evaluating Dining This is a busy time of year for aspiring college students. Those who met early application deadlines…
I decided to blog about Teaching Kids to be Good People by Annie Fox because the holiday season seems like the perfect time for parents to learn more about raising…
My boys were pumped. A birthday party and a rock-climbing adventure all in one. They had talked about it for days. On the way to the party, they giggled about…
Life never goes as planned, and Janis Clark Johnston, author of It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent, claims, since our brains are like storage bins, everything that’s ever…
Nearly 81.5 million Americans have thought about adopting a child. If just one in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child in foster care would have a permanent family.…
“We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on,” argue Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. “You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own…
When I learned that Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman had written a second book together I couldn’t wait to read it. These authors penned one of my favorite parenting books…
RFM Reads the Parenting Books So You Don’t Have To I’ve been turning to books for answers my whole life. In elementary school, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret…
Your child’s “best chance for a happy adulthood lies in discovering and nurturing their strengths, cultivating flexibility in the face of obstacles, and developing the tools to forge lasting relationships,”…