Let’s make this Father’s Day a real celebration of fatherhood, one befitting dad’s more prominent parenting role in the family and honoring the contributions fathers make every day to the lives of their children.
Continue reading...Should I Let My Son Join a College Fraternity?
My teenage son has begun looking at colleges. Recently, while we were looking at admissions brochures over breakfast, he asked me how I’d feel if he joined a fraternity. His question transported me back to my university days, when I pledged a fraternity as a freshman and lived for two of my four undergraduate years […]
Continue reading...Parenting with Grace

I’ve long been intrigued by the concept of grace-based parenting. I’m not sure I have more than an intuitive sense of what it means, however, so I looked the phrase up on the internet. The definitions I found applied mostly to parenting grounded in religious beliefs. This helped my understanding, but I also wanted to […]
Continue reading...Why We Tell Stories

We were honored to learn that Sowmya Srinavasin, a professional storyteller living in Bangalore, India, performed our story, “The Kite Flyer of Beijing,” at the Chennai Storytelling Festival on Saturday, February 8.
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