Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline--from us and eventually from themselves.

Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.