(Editor’s note: please welcome this guest post from Jane about teaching responsibility. Thanks Jane!) How Children Learn to be Responsible In an age where cheating in school is at an all time high and people often value good results over hard work, many parents are at a loss for how to raise responsible children. Responsibility [...]

ikoniWe’ve had rather an interesting conversation in the comments of my most recent post on parental anger. If you haven’t been following it, do pop over and take a read. Essentially, I wrote that I was angry with the boys. Beat said that he almost never gets angry with kids and doesn’t understand it in [...]

(Editor’s note: please welcome Rebecca’s suggestions for lessons in morality that we can all use. Thanks, Rebecca!) Every parent should groom his or her kid into a sensible and responsible human being in whom virtues far outweigh the vices. Parents should initiate imparting moral lessons to their kids from a very young age as it [...]

I grew up being afraid of authority figures. No, I wasn’t abused or anything like that; I was just naturally afraid of doing anything to offend the people in charge of me. Being an overachiever, I took that to extremes. When I was 10, I got my first horse. He was nearly impossible to control [...]

(Editor’s note: please welcome this guest post from Kumon, with some excellent suggestions we can use to help our kiddos learn to share.) The holiday season is a time when many people focus on giving and sharing. Sharing is a wonderful virtue, but it can be a struggle for children, especially when they are young. [...]

(Editor’s note: please welcome Ellen with some solid suggestions we can all follow to create better habits in our families. Thanks, Ellen!) For parents with young children, one of the most challenging tasks is to inculcate good habits in them. By nature, children are quick learners, but given their adventurousness and impetuosity, creating and nurturing [...]