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eZine #71: How To Handle Tough Parenting Seasons
July eZine: How To Handle Tough Parenting Seasons Parenting: Tough Seasons in Parenting | How to make it through In spite of the rigorous demands of the race, I have fully loved...
Tough Seasons of Parenting
Tough Seasons of Parenting How to Make It Through When we are in the middle of each season of parenting, we think it’s going to go on forever. The day-to-day...
eZine #70 | The Greatest Joys of Being a Parent
June eZine: The Greatest Joys of Being a Parent The truth is—my primary days of being “Dad” are over. Sure, I still hold the title and always will. But at best,...
eZine #69 | The Downward Spiral of Worry
May eZine: The Downward Spiral of Worry We are in a season that understandably spawns worry. Frequent media coverage incessantly repeating unnerving words like world-wide pandemic, infectious disease, death tolls, quarantine,...
The Downward Spiral of Worry
We are in a season that understandably spawns worry. Frequent media coverage incessantly repeating unnerving words like world-wide pandemic, infectious disease, death tolls, quarantine, and the need for social distancing causes...
eZine #68 | Help and Encouragement During COVID-19
April eZine: Help and Encouragement During COVID-19 Dr. Dave With a Word of Encouragement These are strange times that we are living in, aren't they? Truly, they are unprecedented and something...
Social Distancing or Social Exclusiveness
How Forced Changes of COVID-19 Can Improve Your Family Our current health crisis has called for social distancing. We are to stay away from others… 6 feet away! We are to...
A Note From All Of Us At DFR
To the Doing Family Right Care Network, We are truly living in unprecedented times right now and from all of us here at Doing Family Right, we want to extend...
Parenting: Coaching Pre-Teens on “SEXTING”
Some of you have already bristled wondering why this topic is even being discussed in a public forum. Stop. Don’t get your back up yet. Hear me out. Other parents are...
eZine #67 | The Role Of A Lifetime Valentine
February eZine: The Role Of A Lifetime Valentine 5 Roles of a Lifetime Valentine What is a lifetime valentine? For me, it’s synonymous with success in marriage. It is best described...
eZine #66 | The Unbroken Line
January eZine: The Unbroken Line Passing On Your Faith To the Next Generation Seventeen years ago, Canadian Hockey Legend, a true friend, and a man I so look up to, Paul...
Parenting: An Unbroken Line Of Christians
Passing On Your Faith to the Next Generation Seventeen years ago, Canadian Hockey Legend, a true friend, and a man I so look up to, Paul Henderson, gave me this challenge....
eZine #65: What To Teach Your Kids This Christmas
December eZine: What To Teach Your Kids This Christmas I’m the out-spoken “Merry Christmas” guy in a world where it’s not politically correct. It’s my part of the fight. Though Season’s...
Marriage: The Power Of A Full-On Apology
To keep any relationship strong, it is as much about how well you forgive as it is how well you love. The apology-forgiveness cycle is one of the hardest skills to...
eZine #64: What’s Your Cell Phone Doing for You?
November eZine: Digital Delight or Distraction—What’s your cell phone doing for you? Notifications nudge us every minute. Each beep, squawk, buzz and vibration on our device beckons us to return to...