Why Your Kids Will Have the Last Word

Why Your Kids Will Have the Last Word

It had been a long day, and I was tired of traveling. My head hurt, my legs were aching, and the fuel pump at this particular station refused to cough up my receipt. Now I had to spend precious time, all two minutes of it, to brave the smoky gas station, wait in a...
Why Your Kids Will Have the Last Word

How Strict Should Parents Be?

I can still recall the moment I discovered that my parents were “strict.” A college friend and I were walking to his car on the campus parking lot, and I was explaining how good I felt my relationship with Dad and Mom to be. I was now a young man, and I...
Why Your Kids Will Have the Last Word

Insight into In-Laws

  Imagine making wedding vows to your in-laws. Frightening? Maybe you already have! Have you ever heard the beautiful words of Ruth recited by a bride at her wedding? “And Ruth said, ‘Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after...

What a Top Hand Taught Me about Training

Apples was a large bay mare with a cranky disposition. And why shouldn’t she have been upset? She was a five-year-old horse that had never been made to mind.I still recall watching from the relative safety of a corral fence as my boss, the skilled hand who was...

What You Can Tell from Shaking Hands

Have you ever shook hands with someone and felt as if you had your hand on the door knob of a vacant house? Maybe you felt like you were stealing their hand shake more than they were giving it. You had their hand but not their interest or respect. Their shoulders were...