May your first word be adventure and last word love.
By picking their own punishments, children become more internally driven to avoid them. By choosing their own rewards, children become more intrinsically motivated to achieve them. Let your kids take...
There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.
After a few more weeks of equally uninspired gatherings, I called David. You’re focusing on the wrong thing, he said. The purpose of the meeting is not to talk about each of you as individuals. It’s t...
The Starrs came up with a modified three questions for their family meeting. 1. What things went well in our family this week? 2. What things could we improve in our family? 3. What things will you co...
Joseph predicted the Exodus, which meant that he knew his descendants would be enslaved by the pharaoh and then freed by God, was the most powerful expression of optimism—and faith—I had ever encounte...
And you will have many opportunities to take in human civilization at its highest levels of achievement. ..approach this experience as a small child might approach a mud puddle. You can lean over and...
Their (Council of Dads) wisdom reads like a psalmbook of living: Approach the cowPack your flip-flopsDon't see the wallTend your tadpolesLive the questionsHarvest miraclesAlways learn to juggle on the...
The future Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1822. In 1844 she married a free man, John Tubman. Five years later, fearing that she was about to be sold, Tubman tapped...
One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't. You'll end up getting divorced or becoming estranged from your kids. Keep in mind, the hard...
For centuries, European explorers had set out for new lands without using expressions like pharaoh and promised land, New Covenant and New Israel, Exodus and Moses. By choosing these evocative lyrics,...
As early as April 1940, Hitler’s chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, denounced Superman as a Jew. The weekly SS newspaper lambasted Jerry Siegel as an intellectually and physically circumcised chap w...
A meta-analysis of sixty-six studies completed in 1992 found that mothers who have more support from grandmothers have less stress and more well-adjusted children. The more involved the grandmothers a...
In his work as a management consultant, Covey often asked his corporate clients to write a one-sentence answer to the question What is this organization’s essential mission or purpose and what is its...
In Superman number one, published in 1939, Clark and Lois Lane travel to a thinly disguised Nazi Germany, where Lois ends up in front of a firing squad, until Superman rescues her. In Superman number...
Freedom is the right to be free, and then the obligation to accept responsibility. If you don’t understand that, then ugly stuff happens. And when you do understand that, you’re prepared to meet the o...
The King James Bible, which most Pennsylvanians would have been using, describes the central moment as an act of economic liberation: Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout...
So if the Civil War was really a war over the meaning of the Bible, I asked, which side won? Neither. The events of the war showed that war is not skywriting from God about the virtue of one side or t...
The Exodus scenes were filmed in the sand dunes of Guadalupe, California, and DeMille transported hundreds of Orthodox Jews from New York, because he believed that in appearance and in their deep feel...
Create a safe zone. Every parent quickly learns that every child—and every adult—handles conflict differently. Some push back when criticized, some turn inward, some break down in tears.