“You’re the worst dad ever!” How do you respond?
As fathers, kids can bring many different challenges our way, and often they test our patience and frustration level. It’s especially true when they get to be teenagers. They’re old enough and smart enough to think they have it all together and know what’s what, but...
5 Ways to Win Valentine’s Day with Your Kids
The approach of Valentine’s Day becomes obvious shortly after Christmas to anyone who enters a store that sells candy or greeting cards. Maybe you “won” Christmas gift-giving, and now there’s another giving obligation right around the corner. Or is it an...
Kobe “Loved Being a Dad”: Fathers & Time
by Ken R Canfield, Ph.D. I join with many around the world this week in mourning the lives lost in the tragic helicopter crash in California—NBA great Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others. While all nine people deserve to be memorialized, it makes sense...
What Your Daughter Really Longs For
by Michelle Watson, PhD, LPC I wish you could sit in my counseling office, even for part of a day, because you’d hear what I consistently hear from teenage girls and 20-something women. You’d hear how often they doubt themselves, how often they fear a future...