Welcome to the second edition of the HIP project! In a world full of discouragement and bad news, this is the place to celebrate those everyday parenting heroes all around us. What is a HIP, you may ask? Not to worry, friend! All is explained in the original HIP post. Without further ado, here are [...]

Tuesday I told you about my idea to celebrate parents who are doing heroic things. What did you think? I’m really excited about it! I think it’ll be fun, especially since we can all participate. (More on that shortly.) And oooh! Did you notice that Hero In Parenting makes a cool acronym? HIP. So we [...]

Have you seen the news lately? Chock full ‘o cheeriness, isn’t it? How about stories about parenting? Find many happy ones? No?? Well, I’m not surprised. Between the advice columns, the results of studies, and the stories of bad parents it’s enough to make a reader downright depressed. I don’t like being depressed. Do you? [...]

On our vacation we stopped and spent some time at the United Flight 93 Temporary Memorial in Shanksville, PA. When I was looking up our vacation route last month I noticed that we were going to drive within about a half hour of the crash site of Flight 93. As soon as I pointed that [...]