This weekly column is here to share real experiences and stories and offer a slightly different insight.
Parenting
Dear Parent, Manipulating Your Children to Live a Life You Should Have Lived Is ‘Witchcraft’
Don’t make your children the best version of yourself, make them the best version of themselves.
Don’t make your children the best version of yourself, make them the best version of themselves.
8 Ways to Balance Your Life as a Great Parent and Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, you may find yourself drifting at times from your values.
As an entrepreneur, you may find yourself drifting at times from your values.
On Not Asking About Plans for More Children
Because, to all the mothers of oners, you don’t need to explain.
Because, to all the mothers of oners, you don’t need to explain.
The Ultimate Support Guide for Parents of Children With Anxiety or Depression
This is the one topic you shouldn't be shying away from because you, dear parents, more than anyone, can have the greatest influence on your child's mental health.
This is the one topic you shouldn’t be shying away from because you, dear parents, more than anyone, can have the greatest influence on your child’s mental health.
Single Mom Balancing Kids, Work & Self Care (let alone dating…)
Allana Pratt Intimacy Expert and Single Mom... totally understands her question, " I am anxious about balancing my son's needs/happiness with my own."
Allana Pratt Intimacy Expert and Single Mom… totally understands her question, ” I am anxious about balancing my son’s needs/happiness with my own.”
Is it Important Not to Let Your Child Into Your Bed?
After a very long but surprisingly good day at around midnight there was nothing I wanted more than my bed, not a thing was going to stand in my way, I was looking at that bed with the same level of inevitability of a table leg looking at a pinkie toe, it was mine for the taking.
After a very long but surprisingly good day at around midnight there was nothing I wanted more than my bed, not a thing was going to stand in my way, I was looking at that bed with the same level of inevitability of a table leg looking at a pinkie toe, it was mine for the taking.
5 Toxic Parenting Mistakes You Must Avoid at all Costs
Immature adults and toxic parenting styles are incredibly destructive.
— A few years ago, I worked with a husband and wife who hated each other. Frank and Janet* had a 9-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son. They had a bad habit of screaming at one another in front of them. She’d call him a “motherf-cking coward” and he’d call her a “psycho c-nt.” *Not…
Being a Dad as Sport. Why I Love Fatherhood
I love fatherhood most of all for no reason.
I love fatherhood most of all for no reason
2 Things ‘Model’ Dads Do: Father’s Day
You may not be in a Fathers’ Day commercial, but you certainly already are a model to your kids.
You may not be in a Fathers’ Day commercial, but you certainly already are a model to your kids.
In the Age of Super Heroes, Where are the Fathers?
Challenge, Promote, and Reinforce actively involved fathers.
Challenge, Promote, and Reinforce actively involved fathers.
Focus on Achievement Can Cause Parents to Disregard Character Flaws
In order to really succeed in life, these same kids will need to have learned to temper their self-importance with a healthy dose of self-awareness, and to generously convey a respect for others—all others—no matter what their personal feelings or judgments try to dictate.
In order to really succeed in life, these same kids will need to have learned to temper their self-importance with a healthy dose of self-awareness, and to generously convey a respect for others—all others—no matter what their personal feelings or judgments try to dictate.
Embrace the Suck, Mom and Dad.
The daunting duty that we as parents have been tasked, is a long and bumpy road.
The daunting duty that we as parents have been tasked, is a long and bumpy road.
What Fathers Need to Know About Their Child’s Knowledge of Drugs
Where and what our kids are learning about drugs can affect their perception of using them.
Where and what our kids are learning about drugs can affect their perception of using them.
So Much
Toddlers are humans uncensored.
Toddlers are humans uncensored.
The Day My Son was Born
On this day and at this moment I was the happiest I had ever been in my entire life. “This is the best day of my life,” I told him.
On this day and at this moment I was the happiest I had ever been in my entire life. “This is the best day of my life,” I told him.