DADS — WHEN YOUR KIDS LOOK AT YOU–IS THIS WHAT THEY SEE?
What do your kids see when they look at you? Another way to ask that is—what do they see you doing?
CHOOSING YOUR BATTLES WISELY
We have heard it a thousand times … “Choose your battles wisely!” This famous saying is often not attributed to its rightful author, Sun Tzu. As a brilliant Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu was a highly respected general of...
SHOULD WE VACCINATE OUR KIDS?
Although I am a practicing physician, I don’t normally write about medical topics on this blog, but there is something I need to discuss. As parents we want the very best for our children, and will stop at nothing...
WHAT WE NEVER HAD
“Sometimes we’re so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.” ~James Dobson
DON’T LET YOUR SMARTPHONE MAKE YOU STUPID
Many years ago as a medical student I was handed my first pager. If it buzzed, I would pull off the road, find a payphone, dig out some quarters and call a particular number. There was no screen to...
WHO’S THE BOSS? DON’T UNDERESTIMATE DISCIPLINE
Raising children is a blessing—no doubt about it. But as parents, if we ignore our responsibilities, the consequences are born by society. A young mom brought her son, Billy to my office with a sore throat. When the nurse...
THE BIGGEST OBSTACLE
“The biggest obstacle facing the family right now is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to...
Tornados Don’t Hit Trees
When my kids were little, I sometimes wondered how I would ever raise them. What would I do when the questions came up like, where does lightning come from? But I discovered that it was not really an issue...