As reported this week by the Associated Press, there’s been a dramatic drop in the percentage of children being bullied or beaten up by their peers. These findings were revealed in a national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are starting to have an impressive impact on what has been a long standing and [...]

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Actually it’s a tough question, with no easy answer. A recent study in The Journal of Happiness Studies revealed that with great consistency children are a source of joy for parents and, in fact, the more the merrier with greater happiness reported in families with two, three, or more children.
But other studies have painted a [...]

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As we all know, Christmas brings happiness and heartaches, joy and stress. For parents of children, toddlers through teens, that stress is often heightened by a parent’s fear that they are not able to provide the kind of Christmas for their child that they hoped they would.
That could mean many things, from not finding the [...]

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Technology has changed the way we communicate so dramatically and in such a short period of time that every now and then we have to pause, catch our collective breaths, and take notice of where we are moving as a society. A recent survey released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that 25 [...]

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Most people envision a handicapped person as someone in a wheelchair. But, while seemingly common, that isn’t the only type of handicap. There are others that we can’t see. People can be emotionally, mentally, and spiritually crippled as well.
Emotional handicaps tend to be a product of one’s own maturation – how a child was nurtured, [...]

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Imagine you were asked to work overtime and you resented the request. But then you were told that you would get double your normal pay rate for every hour you worked. Immediately you feel more cooperative about the request. In fact you may find yourself looking forward to the next time you’re asked to work [...]

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Dear John, My son “Jimmy” and my husband “Frank,” who is his stepfather, hate each other. Jimmy was 13 when we married. He was a difficult teenager.  Now he’s 18 and working full time, but past ill feelings remain between them. Frank has no children of his own, and he fights with Jimmy as though [...]

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