Why do we overwhelm our kids with so many activities and sports these days? Isn’t it enough any more just to be a student doing homework? Instead, they play on In House teams and Travel Teams, we sign them up at age 5 for fear of being left out or not getting into the right […]
I’m a single dad to six wonderful children, only two of whom live with me 50% of the time. And while I’m a proud and devoted father, this is not where I thought my life would be at age 52. Two failed marriages and six children struggling to make sense of it all, expressing their […]
This is the title to one of my all-time favorite books. In it, Dr. Gordon Livingston, a noted Columbia, Maryland psychiatrist, reflects on life, love and the agonizing pain of losing two children within 13 months of one another, one to suicide and the other to childhood cancer. Being the father of six children myself, […]