Mother-son bonding
My 12-year-old son is a young man of few words. But I find that when we get to spend some time, just the two of us, he opens up a bit. Yesterday afternoon, we drove [...]
Carpool karma
Well, it’s back to my job as taxi-driver this week. My kids both have practice (Aaron for football, Melanie for futbol (aka soccer)). They both practice every night at 5:30, so getting them where they need to go, [...]
Nurturing creativity
Parenting teens is not easy. This afternoon both my kids took their window screens off of their windows, to let more air in, they said. They leaned the screens on the roof outside their windows. [...]
I joined Facebook!
In an attempt to keep up with technology and communicating with younger friends and readers, I joined Facebook this week. I was at a meeting with the good folks at Zondervan Publishing this week (they're [...]