

If At First You Don’t Succeed
One of my favorite quotes is from familiar author and speaker Bob Goff, and goes like this, “People don’t change when you tell them what...


Keeping Opportunity on the Menu.
As a Christian parent, I know that I'm supposed to initiate all manner of deep spiritual conversations with my kids, right? My wife and...


Moments are fleeting.
Parenting moments are fleeting even faster. Maybe it’s because my wife and I adopted our son at 8 that I am so sensitive to this reality....


Meeting the iPhone Halfway
Parents, have you heard the term, ‘Nomophobia’? It described as anxiety caused by either a misplaced smartphone or a smartphone with a...


How to Use This Remarkably Influential Parenting Tool
The table. The table is a powerful place where some of our most influential parenting can occur. What table am I talking about? Well, for...


Following my footsteps?
As parents, we know that we are supposed to talk with our kids about sex, but how often do we talk with them about politics? According to...


7 Keys to Engaging Your Busy Teen
If you’re like me, you have a new driver adding key tracking, gas watch, and drive time to his added list of teenage responsibilities...

Be On Constant Repeat
It feels like 90% of parenting is repeating myself. Most of the time this frustrates me. My guess is that it is similar for you. If I am...

Daily Discipleship (Don't Delegate the Discipleship of Your, Part 2)
Daunting. Overwhelming. Difficult. Weird. Confusing. To be honest the task of the discipleship of our children can seem like all of these...


My Kids Were A Tool
We have our own personal enemy and he’s actually pretty brilliant. He knows the very thing that we want so desperately that we will hear...