By: Sissy Goff In the U.S., anxiety is now considered a childhood epidemic, and the rates of depression and suicide continue to climb. In...

By: Dr. Josh Myers David Webb is worth more than a billion dollars, yet I’m pretty sure you don’t know who he is. Webb is also a...

By: Dr. Josh Myers As the father of two young children, the following true-life story from my counseling practice terrifies me. The...

By: Cynthia Yanof A show of hands, please, for those of you obsessed with Old Testament stories like I am. I think there are so many...

By: Josh Myers, PhD, LPC-S “I just want to see my child be happy, Dr. Myers. Is that too much to ask?” I’ve heard some form of this...

By: Cynthia Yanof If you didn’t catch Joanna Gaines’ New Year’s resolution on social media, it was so perfect for all of us in the throes...

By: Cynthia Yanof I’ve been praying the last few days about what the Lord would have me write this week. How he would want me to write...

By: Rebecca Carrell I was in fourth grade when Cabbage Patch dolls exploded onto the scene as the “must-have” toy of the eighties. My...

By: Kevin Leman What your teens fear most is quite different from what may keep you awake at night. Most parents’ worries are theoretical...

By: Meg Bucher Without words, my dad faithfully repaired the doorframe every time my teenage angst slammed it off its alignment. No one...

By: Cynthia Yanof I recently ran across an article talking about the number one reason teens keep the faith as young adults. The article...

By: Janet Denison It’s our “parental instinct” to jump in between angry giants and our kids. After all, isn’t it our jobto protect them...

By: Leslie Schmucker For their Latin class, my middle school students were tasked with memorizing the Apostles’ Creed. What was a chore...

By: Marci Seither When Scott, our middle son, was leaving after a visit home, he told his father and I, “You might as well know I have a...

By: Joannie DeBrito, Ph.D., LCSW, LMFT Nearly two decades later, the sights, sounds and smells remain etched in my mind. I was a first...

By: Janet Denison Have you seen the powerful video by Nature Valley? If there were a way to send it to every parent’s computer, I would...

By: Ginger Kolbaba One late summer day, I stood in the tiny dorm room that would be my home for the next nine months and stared at the...

By: Daniel P. Huerta It’s one of the most common parenting questions, especially for young parents. The topic charges emotions and often...

By: Bill Farrel Marcus and Mandy had just figured out how to parent 3-year-old Sarah when her brother, Sam, came along. Creative and...

By: Bob Smithouser A number of years ago I satisfied an unfulfilled childhood urge by adopting a pair of baby iguanas. Liberty and...