Opinion

When it comes to more fundamental questions of ethics, morality, faith, and belief,  I want to encourage my kids to explore these things for themselves.

It's one of the great cliches that children grow up too fast and that you need to enjoy each stage while you can, but being cliche doesn't make it any easier to practise some times.

My oldest son takes his fandom very seriously. When his teams win, he's jubilant. When this teams lose, he's crushed.

My kids don't seem to have any idea how easy our lives really are in comparison to most people in the world today and throughout the course of history. 

Some of the most complex needs of my patients stem from poverty and not disease alone

The power of a name tag.

 I've only developed a true appreciation for the housework my four brothers and I created now that I have kids of my own.

“I'm bored. What can I do now?”

Something has been eating our sunflowers.  Just as they start developing more leaves, they are snipped off at the ground.

There is a parenting principle that I've found quite useful but that I sometimes have a hard time practising.  It goes like this – say “yes” when you can.

It isn't necessary for kids to like everything we do as parents.

Parenting is like an extended hangover.

One of the things that worries me about many of the teens and young adults I know is a real lack of passion about much of anything

One of the things that I want to provide for my sons is the model of a healthy marriage.

If only teaching our kids about their bodies were as simple as helping them learn the alphabet. 

Two of my kids have birthdays in March, which is a reminder that birthdays are another of those things that I find difficult as a parent. 

Keep a long memory for the good moments and keep a short memory for the bad ones. 

Children take up a tremendous amount of time, energy, money, and just about everything else that we could otherwise spend on things that we enjoy more.