Congratulations to www.changemakers.com/empathy winners!

The Activating Empathy winners are great group, for sure, and I am happy that Parents Forum was a finalist. But (boo-hoo) our entry Opening the Door to Parents http://bit.ly/wNn9bV did not win. And that’s the way it is. Plenty to be glad about, though, not the...

International Day of Families is today!

May 15 is here again and it is very heartening to remember that there are lots of good people around the world working to support families. I just spent an hour by telephone with National Parenting Education Network (NPEN – US) council members in a very rich...

Can you de-brat your kids?

You may have seen TIME Magazine’s article declaring American kids to be brats. You probably saw – or heard about – the viral video of an American dad shooting his daughter’s laptop in response to her Facebook rant about her parents and chores....