I came across an article the other day where someone stated having a baby might fix his relationship.  After wiping the tears from my laughter, I wanted to reach through the monitor and slap him.  He believed the problems with his wife would be solved by adding a baby.  Unless your problem is your spouse demanding babies, a screaming, pooping, always hungry child getting into everything won’t solve anything.

My daughter is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, but parenting is stressful.  Since my wife is still nursing, she hasn’t had a solid night of sleep in…

When it comes to our children we want the best for them.  Often the “best” are things we didn’t have as young ones.  Maybe they’re even the things we valued the most.  Either way we want to give our children the best lives and prepare them for the future the best we can.

Two things I want to pass on are, first, love and, second, the knowledge to become financially secure.  My parents and family gave me more love then I knew what to do with.  We weren’t an affectionate family and with three brothers, emotions were not shared as…

Empty Nest Syndrome is a layman’s term commonly applied to the feelings of sadness and loss felt by a mother when a grown child leaves home. Often, this emotional reaction occurs in the fall, when newly adult-age children go away to college. It is a common misconception that only mothers are affected by the separation of children from the household. This is possibly because it is primarily women who seek professional help in emotional crisis, so statistical data tend to show Empty Nest Syndrome to be more a mother’s affliction.

Men, however, are not immune to the grief brought on…

Every child has the need to be loved, this is something that every parent should know. Every parent should be a nurturing parent. But how do we make our children know that we love them? Things as complex as love easily can get lost in translation in the equation of human relationships. That is why becoming a nurturing parent is not really easy to achieve. It takes many different interactions over the course of time to develop a healthy and nurturing relationship with your child. There is no fixed rule in parenting because every family is unique, so parents…

Every year, after Christmas, families rush to the mall to return unwanted, unloved, or duplicate gifts.  Now, this seems normal, but many kids don’t tell you what they really dislike, and others are just rude when they tell you this.

Many kids don’t tell anyone if they received an item they did not like, had another of, or find goofy.  Now, kids do this for a variety of reasons.  Some kids are afraid they’ll hurt the gift giver’s feelings for telling anyone this, and they don’t want to do that to anyone, especially family.  My younger brother, for example, didn’t…