Wise Parenting for Modern Times

Collective pledges and landlines have spread through homes as parents try to protect children from social media.

We’re far behind where we should be—and nobody seems willing to address it.

Being a parent isn’t going to get any easier in the future.

Most curricula and schools have failed to instill these time-tested values into the rising generation.

The world our children face today is tremendously complex and fast-paced, far more so than the world past generations faced in their early years.

Virtue, not satisfaction and emotional happiness, is the foundation of a truly happy life in the long term.

When I quit my full-time publishing job to stay home with my children, I was made to feel like a traitor to womankind.

‘How do you do that so easily?’ I asked. ‘I’m just Grandma,’ my mother said.

Frederick Douglass once remarked, ‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.’

Men are not meant to reside in comfort. We’re built to accomplish big missions, go on quests, maintain the hunt, and be in a constant state of challenge.

I want to think that somewhere in this world of technological convenience, the software of the heart will have a conversation with the head.

In the past, people looked to folk tales, fairy tales, and myths for guidance when facing trials and moral choices.

Collective pledges and landlines have spread through homes as parents try to protect children from social media.

We’re far behind where we should be—and nobody seems willing to address it.

Being a parent isn’t going to get any easier in the future.

Most curricula and schools have failed to instill these time-tested values into the rising generation.

The world our children face today is tremendously complex and fast-paced, far more so than the world past generations faced in their early years.

Virtue, not satisfaction and emotional happiness, is the foundation of a truly happy life in the long term.

When I quit my full-time publishing job to stay home with my children, I was made to feel like a traitor to womankind.

‘How do you do that so easily?’ I asked. ‘I’m just Grandma,’ my mother said.

Frederick Douglass once remarked, ‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.’

Men are not meant to reside in comfort. We’re built to accomplish big missions, go on quests, maintain the hunt, and be in a constant state of challenge.

I want to think that somewhere in this world of technological convenience, the software of the heart will have a conversation with the head.

In the past, people looked to folk tales, fairy tales, and myths for guidance when facing trials and moral choices.