This is the season of homeschool conventions - from small, intimate convocations in rural areas, to megaconferences with more attendees than our hometown. They're the boon and the bane of many homeschoolers' year. Are they really necessary,

We're just back from a 3600-mile trip to North Dakota and back. It wasn't our longest trip but it was certainly one of our most eventful ... - When we lost oil pressure in Wisconsin, we wondered if God was sending us a message. -

Are you satisfied with a Christianity that stays safe and unthreatening in its Sunday box, or do you believe Jesus is even Lord of math and science, politics and history, philosophy and ethics too? Your framework and lens for understanding things aroun...

We all know the passage about Jesus and the children - "Let them come to Me, and do not forbid them ..." - but what more can we learn about loving our children like Jesus does? What can He teach us about discipline? Or about mercy?

When the Parent Child Relationship Cools... We all have those moments - when we sense a distance or coolness from our child, when something has gone wrong in your relationship. It may be a young kid or an adult son or daughter,

Every parent has moments of wonder about just how much energy children have. Then ... there are kids who are more than just the average "busy" children. Carol Barnier, the author of How To Get Your Child Off The Refrigerator And On To Learning,

When we were teens, we couldn't wait to get our driver's license -- it was a rite of passage! But we hear over and over in homeschooling circles a refrain that leaves us puzzled - and concerned: Families reluctant to help their young men and young wome...

Romance Once You've Got Kids It's Valentine's Day this week, and for parents with small children, no money for a sitter, and no relatives nearby, the response might be "So what?" It can be discouraging when the world is full of ads urging dinner out,

Studies and research on the Millennial Generation, those in their twenties and thirties now, can pretty disturbing. Indications are this group of young adults is moving away from their parents' values and institutions in ways we haven't seen since the ...

It's a Christian parent's nightmare - the child who walks away from the family and the faith they were taught. Is there anything we can do but wait and pray? Carol Barnier, author of Reaching Today's Prodigal, was that child herself,