“It’s the only game where you score by returning to where you start.” That’s how Bart Giamatti described baseball. Watching the Yankees win yet another World Series by coming more more times than the Phillies reminded me of the parallels between parenting and baseball.

Consequences increase with age. Unchecked bad behavior will lead to bigger whoppers and greater punishment later. Good parents watch for these teachable moments–and teach with them. In this case, a golden riddle unlocks the distinction between right and wrong.

The worst part of a car wreck comes in that moment before metal crunches metal. Time slows. The realization of impending doom skids across your consciousness. I get the same feeling when careening into an argument with my teenage daughter.
A teenage argument is the rhetorical equivalent of hydroplaning. You’re riding on a thin sheet of [...]

Teens want freedom. Parents want accountability. It’s a two-concern pile-up at the intersection of adulthood and adolescence. Kwikset introduces new smartlock technology that opens the door to a possible solution.

“I’ll be right back,” says Tom Hanks as he unknowingly boards a FedEx plane destined to rip his life apart in the film Cast Away. It’s a story for everyone content with their controlling grip of on the world. When loss obliterated the path we were traveling, our journey back became a personalized Cast Away experience.