I've written before about my recent experience in a parenting class based on Positive Discipline (rather than authoritative or permissive parenting). Apparently, this approach is really beneficial for kids with special needs. To read more, go to Parenting Style Has Big Impact ...

ab·nor·mal [ab-nawr-muhl]

adjective

1. not normal, average, typical, or usual; deviating from a standard.

A friend of mine recently edited my forthcoming ebook (What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing, Patheos Press) to help ensure medical accuracy, and he suggested ...

I had a bad dream last week. Or maybe I was half-awake in the middle of the night, thinking about what lay ahead. All I know is that at two in the morning, for the first time, I was worried about Penny's upcoming surgery.

I shouldn't have been. It was the fifth time she would ...

Last week, I received the exciting news that A Good and Perfect Gift will be (someday–I'll keep you posted on when...) turned into an audiobook on Audible.

Also last week, a friend posted on Facebook, "When I teach I feel His pleasure." He was referencing Eric Liddell, the Olympic ...

This guest post was written by my friend and colleague Jennifer Grant in commemoration of National Adoption Month. 

Huddled on the bleachers with other parents, thoughts dart around in my mind. What inning is this? Why didn't I bring gloves? Could I be getting frostbite through ...

It's been a season of change. New house. New job for my husband. New schools for our kids. New friends. New computer. There's a list of other things that need to become new—my driver's license, for instance. We all need a new dentist. The car still needs a new not-rusty door. ...

came out in September of 2011, and I embarked on a year of promotional interviews and speaking gigs from Virginia to Washington D.C. to North Carolina to New York City to Michigan to Chicago, and to various local venues in New Jersey and Connecticut. But this year, given our ...