Parents shouldn't aim for perfection
Oh, how I remember all those wonderful children I was going to have.
Summertime, and the living can be uneasy
It still is summer. Really. Every year in mid-August, with the Halloween decorations already calling to me from every store I enter, I have the same reaction: Don't shorten my summer!
Spoil the child and raise debt -- everybody does it
We parents on average spend five times more on our kids today than we did 25 years ago, and that's in real dollars, according to David Briggs, head of the Good Sense Financial Stewardships Ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington.