Our Lives Through Music
I watched girls last night at a high school musical review belt out tunes from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s that were sung by women artists in those eras , and it brought back a
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A Vacation Clark Griswold Would Be Proud Of
The mere thought of a week of summer vacation with the kiddos can bring a myriad of feelings: excitement, angst, anticipation, or even trepidation. The expectation of thrilling roller coaster rides and relaxing beaches gets
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A Sure-Fire Marriage Killer
My wife and I spent a relaxing week on the beaches of Kauai recently celebrating our 33rd wedding anniversary, and as always it was renewing and absolutely vital to keeping our marriage passionate and fresh.
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The Best Prom Night Protection For Girls
The recent story of NFL player Ray Rice hitting his girlfriend really bothered me. I work with so many teenage girls and women in their 20’s that it sickens me to think about how
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Prom Night: Let’s Hear It For The Boys!
I have heard from many worried parents lately about the hazards of prom night for their girls, and I was interviewed on the CBS affiliate TV news show Great Day St. Louis today about
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Root Beer Feelings
Have you ever been so mad that you flew into a rage and screamed your head off into your pillow or while driving in your car? And then, inexplicably, you started bawling? Unbeknownst to you, you experienced
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Surprising Saudi Girls
Sitting in a circle with six 13 year old Saudi girls was an amazing experience for me last week. I have just returned from spending time in Saudi Arabia, and part of it allowed me
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How We Are Messing Up Girls
How are parents and the culture messing up girls today? On the one hand, we are conditioning girls to focus on being competitive, driven, ambitious, willing to step on people to get to the top,
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Have Girls Lost Their Guts?
The recent story of NFL player Ray Rice hitting his girlfriend really bothered me. I work with so many teenage girls and women in their 20’s that it sickens me to think about how many
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Are Great-Grandparents Going Extinct?
I am afraid that great-grandparents are going the way of the dinosaur, which is a shame. Kids are going to miss out on a lot of family history and heritage. Why do I say this?
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Like Father, Like Son
As boys approach the teen years, their relationship with their dads can become contentious and bogged down in power struggles and provocations. Young men start to feel their oats, and they want to sit at
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What Buddha Can Teach Us About Reacting To Racial Slurs?
Can we all please grow up past the sandbox stage and stop both the name-calling and the over-reactions to words? Please? Marcus Smart, a college basketball player, recently brought this issue to the forefront once
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How Far Have We Come? Ask the Beatles
We use to burn Beatle’s albums! Really, we did. Love, love me do, She loves you ya ya ya, All you need is love…did we actually create bonfires and throw songs like these onto the
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Over-Complicated Parenting
I read in the newspaper recently an article about researching summer camps for your children, and it reminded me once again of how over-complicated we have made parenting. The “camp advisor” stated that “the best
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Childhood is Not a Race
Parents need a major adjustment in what they focus on. Because are kids are suffering way too much stress these days, and it will haunt them into the future. Here’s why. Sophie, 14, a straight
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Girls Are Way More Than Their Looks And Appearance
You are your looks. Your appearance and ‘hotness’ is what matters most. Your power comes from displaying your body, and the more displayed the better. If you got it, flaunt it. You also gain much
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Bullying: Focus on Prevention vs. Reactions
When it comes to school bullying, I think we’ve got it all wrong. 2 girls, one 13 and the other 14, were bullied so severely last fall that their parents obtained restraining orders against the
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Engagement-Disengagement: The Art of Letting Go
If you hold an infant in your arms and gaze quietly into their eyes, they will reciprocate by looking back. And then the beautiful dance begins, where the baby takes the lead as much as
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I Do? Apparently Not For Many Young Women
I wonder if it’s possible to plan out how, when, and where you will meet up with your soulmate, assuming that there is at least one person out there with whom you are destined to
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Gratitude
It was 9 PM on a wednesday evening as I walked with my wife Anne along a darkened wharf in Cabo, Mexico. A small, solitary figure approached us, and to my surprise it was a