Parenting From The Source

Have you thought about what it means to empower kids? Does that sound frightening, because we don’t want to give our kids too much power? What exactly is empowerment? Synonyms include encourage, enable, and authorize. Something happened in my family that made me see the importance of empowering my kids. What a Pile of Dirty [...]

I just read a copy of Billy Graham’s prayer for our country. He said that we have “called evil good” by our various behaviors. One behavior he mentioned was that we fail to discipline our children and call it “building self-esteem.” Actually, a good way to build self-esteem is to discipline our children.

The news comes blaring into the family room. Occupy Wall Street has been in progress for a month now. Your kids have listened to the news with half-attention as they also checked their social media. The facts of the movement are slowly crawling into their brains. Perhaps it’s time to talk to them openly rather [...]