A Latter-day Voice

Last week’s Wall Street Journal featured this story on parents’ serving as “exposure coaches” for their children who suffer from anxiety. ...

I did a workshop at our stake’s women’s conference, and I blogged about it at Real Intent (you can read that blog here ). The presentati...

It’s that season again. I don’t mean leaf raking (though it is). And I don’t mean pre-Christmas (though it is). And I don’t mean Thanks...

Today's post is cross-posted at Middle-aged Mormon Man as part of the Proclamation Celebration. You can find it here . At MMM's si...

I wrote a while back about how teenagers (boys, especially) seem to go to the dark side of the moon during their adolescence. And by the ...

Teenagers are remarkable creatures. During these developmental years, they double in size, physically mature, lose all sense of reason (and...

In my last post on this subject , I described my emotional response to the choice of some of my children to leave the church. And I postula...

Recently there have been a number of news stories (and subsequent blog posts) about those who are leaving the LDS church. In the normal cou...

A quote from my daughter, who has recently moved on her own for the first time (previously she’s either lived at home or in college apartmen...

I had a conversation with a reader on another blog post a couple of weeks ago. He asked about my thoughts on how to prepare our kids for “...

When I was a young father, I had a strange expectation. I don’t know why, but I had it in my head that when I corrected my kids, they’d be ...

I have seven children, five of whom are adults. As our kids have worked through the normal stages of development, we've often cited the...

You may be familiar with the key (and oft-quoted) verses from Doctrine and Covenants 121: No power or influence can or ought to be maintai...

Here's a joke: How do you raise perfect children in two steps? Step One: Find a perfect child. Step Two: Pick him up. My mother...

There is something about babies that just melts me. I'm the dad of seven. And in our extended family we have within the last few weeks...