When a newborn arrives, it calls out into the world. As her parents take her into their arms and provide care they learn to respond to...

Many parents become undone when a child lies to them.  Projecting in the future, parents fear that deceit will become habitual and last...

Ever since Bill Milliken, a Christian minister working with at-risk youth in New York’s lower East Side, wrote a book in 1968 by the...

Spring is here and high school juniors are just now finding letters in their mailboxes that tell them whether a college has accepted them...

We love our children dearly, and they also make us furious.  We may find ourselves angrier at the things our children do, whether they...

Every parent’s number one responsibility is to keep their child safe. Since pictures of missing children began to first appear on milk...

Your children’s weekly allowance can provide an important opportunity to teach the values that are salient in your family. It is wise...

In her poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home,” Linda Pastan describes her experience of teaching her eight year old daughter how to ride a...

Much has been written over the ages about the nature of love.  Romantic stories with fairy-tale endings abound in the mass media as well...

Garrison Keillor, the musical host of the Minnesota radio show A Prairie Home Companion, recently sang a song on his show entitled “The...

The Washington, D.C. area features families from a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds.  Children who grow up...

Adoption is both a gift and a loss for all members of the adoptive triad: the child, the parents and birthparents. For the child,...