Today my youngest son turns 7 years old!
It is amazing (not to mention a little scary as well) that my son is already celebrating his seventh birthday, as it seems like just yesterday that he was a tiny little baby being held in our arms.
Over the years, he has given me plenty of opportunities to [...]

Picture the following scenario…
You arrive home from work after a grueling commute; hot and sweaty from the summer heat, stomach growling with hunger. You walk in the door and your wife says, “We need to talk.”
Those are four words that any man dreads hearing from his wife.
Either it means you have committed a colossal [...]

When you take pictures, do you find that you end up with a lot of shots that would have been great if they had just been in focus? Do you toss more images than you keep because of this? Let’s look at some ways to improve the focusing with your camera.
For the most part, these [...]

Cover your child’s ears as I am about to tell you a dirty word…
Money.
Okay…money isn’t really a dirty word but think about what that words means in your life. For many people it means stress; stress about their job; stress about their marriage; stress about their children. The current state of the economy [...]

Being a parent is far from easy.
There are many demands on your time, from work to your family and everything in between, that have a tendency to pull you in a multitude of directions on a moments notice.
Couple all of that with the fact that many of you are also authoring one or more blogs [...]

After sharing the idea that parenting has become the most competitive adult sport, there was plenty of quality discussion that ensued and I noticed a common theme while discussing competitive parents.
Failure is unacceptable.
Parents that engage in the sport of competitive child rearing (coming soon to the X-Games) often expect perfection from their child. When [...]