Parents

Things Moms Never Say

“How on earth can you see the TV sitting so far back?” “Yeah, I used to skip school a lot, too” “Just leave all the lights on… it makes the house look…

Effective Car Alarms

I was with a friend in a cafe when a noisy car alarm interrupted our conversation. “What good are car alarms when no one pays any attention to them?” I wondered aloud….

Lack Of Discipline

As the family gathered for a big dinner together, the youngest son announced that he had just joined the army. There were gasps around the table, then some laughter, as his older…

Naming The Twins

A pregnant woman gets in a car accident and falls into a deep coma. Asleep for nearly six months, when she wakes up she discovers that she is no longer pregnant and…

Older Than the Beatles

A professor of psychology at a British university included a lecture on crowd psychology in his annual course. To illustrate mass hysteria, he regularly showed TV news footage of teenage crowds greeting…

Large Family

Ben came from a large family. He had five sisters and three brothers. One day he was looking through the family photo album with his mother when he noticed, in page after…

What Did You Do Today?

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem. His children were playing in the front yard in their pajamas. Inside the house the TV was loudly blaring a…

Just Ask Me

On a flight to Florida, Mary was preparing notes for one of the parent education seminars she conducted. The elderly woman sitting next to Mary explained that she was returning to Miami…

Choosing Sides

When the family was moving cross-country the Mom and Dad each needed to drive one of their two cars. Their eight-year-old son worriedly asked, “How will we keep from getting separated?” “We’ll…

The Price of Talking

One night a wife found her husband standing over their newborn baby’s crib. Silently she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on his face a…

An Honest Answer

Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day. “My name is Bobby. What’s yours?” asked the first boy. “Danny,” replied the…

Adopted Language

The couple was delighted when their long wait to adopt a baby came to an end. The adoption center called and told them that there was a wonderful Russian baby boy available….