I never want my children to feel repressed when it comes to their bodies, nor do I want them to view their bodies from a more libertine perspective.

Perhaps the most important is creating a safe environment in which the bad guys in their little minds are easily vanquished.

What I want, more than anything else, is for our children to know that we have made decisions regarding their education with their best interests in mind.

Galimberti’s photos are a helpful reminder that I need to be thoughtful about the toys and other possessions that I give my children because I want them to be thoughtful about their material goods.

After this recent incident, I’m forced to consider how many of my childrearing plans might just be my projecting my own nerdiness on to my children in a curious form of objectification.

Here are a list of random parenting tips gleaned from my many years — OK, three years — of parenting experience.

How interesting would it be if video games turn out to be tools that challenge us and cause us to think about the role and impact of fathers in the lives of their wards?

I’ll have to see if his school will give him foreign language credit for this.

Show your church’s kids that they matter to the church body as a whole.

In our desire to feel productive and in control lies a temptation to compartmentalize our lives.

As I’ve heard more stories from folks my age about their church experiences, I realize how fortunate I was as a kid.

She’s not even in preschool yet, but she’ll be a teenager before I know it, and Lord help me then.

I wonder if part of the problem is that parents simply assume that fairy tales are neat and clean.

Here she is, my beautiful baby girl.