Unfortunately, as soon as children are old enough to understand, you need to teach them that other adults need to be evaluated for trustworthiness. [Week 38 of 52 Weeks to a Better Relationship With Y

How should you evaluate extra activities for your child? Don't just let yourself be swept along on a wave of excitement or what it seems like a lot of other people are doing.

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Children are inherently independent. They are free agents, free to choose how to respond to the world around them. On the other hand, they benefit greatly from being protected from themselves and from

Before beginning such a conversation with a child, an adult needs to examine his or her own substance choices and assumptions made about them. If a substance affects our mental state, does that make i

Back in 2018, I had a lot of fun interviewing the man who runs Liberty Minecraft, Nathan Dempsey. I had a request to make the interview available again. Not only did Nathan patiently and succinctly ex

Teaching your children (and yourselves) to be appropriately skeptical about the knowledge that people claim to have is not just an exercise in critical thinking. It can have a profound effect on how l

Schedules are like knives. They can cut things up into bite size, digestible pieces or they can cut you to pieces. It all depends on how you wield them. How involved should a parent be in managing a c

All the different curriculums or teaching styles will have minimal impact if you neglect this key. If you evaluate and define this, your problem solving will be guided in indispensable ways.

The word gender is currently the hockey puck in some major political battles. And it reminds me of discussions I have heard in the past about whether or not it is proper to call a woman a lady. To som