“Look, Dad!” my middle son said as he came home the other day. “I got an iPad!”

Kids create disasters and they're not good at cleaning them up.

My youngest sometimes feels a little left out and his frustration and jealousy at this situation often comes out in really practical ways.

Children have difficulty listening sometimes. You may have noticed.

I grew up in a house of five boys in one of the safest cities on the planet in an era when helicopter parents (or drone parents, as I prefer to call them) would have been laughed off the playground.

“We played nicky-nicky-nine-doors. It was awesome.”

My youngest son is a real story teller. 

Sometimes in our house relatively simple issues end up escalating far further than necessary.

I'm constantly amazed at how much my kids know.

One of the things I've found helpful to my parenting (and to my life generally, in fact) is a daily time of quiet meditation.

I often see kids in public places behaving in ways that are childish or impolite or even outright inappropriate and I have made a conscious effort to intervene in those kinds of situations as calmly and politely as I can.

Parenting in a digital age comes with two big challenges: excessive use and behavioural concerns. 

I don't know if you fight about dressing for winter in your house, but it's a source of constant conflict in mine.

When my son yells at me about my meanness, I tell him that I'd like to be able to trust him, but that there have been too many times when he has abused my trust, so now I have to

In my work with Children's Aid I often run into kids who are “parentified”, who do the job of parenting their younger siblings because their own parents haven't been able or willing to do it.

Parents need to treat kid maturing human beings rather than perpetual children. 

I've written about this before, so forgive the repetition, but we need to stop telling children that they can be anything they want to be.

 I didn’t expect was to hear the dreaded phase “I hate you” coming from my five-year olds’ month.