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Do you have fifteen minutes a day that you could spend teaching your young child to love physical fitness and teaching them desirable character qualities such as patience, truthfulness and compassion? I hope so because there are plenty of advertisers, writers of inane television shows and others...

I'm sitting in the lobby of a St. Louis hotel waiting for my son's gymnastic's meet to start. On the  drive in from Kansas City,  I asked him how old he was when he first thought he'd like to twirl around a  bar. He had no idea. I then asked how old he was when he first thought it...

When I was ten years old I was at my favorite summer spot, Mission Pool. I was swimming alone when I spotted a girl about my age; so I swam over and said something along the lines of, "I'm Pam, do you want to be friends?." More than forty years later she's still the girlfriend I call my best...

Parents are always concerned about how their children will get along with the rest of the world. We teach them to be cautious but friendly, truthful but tactful, and in every other way seeking virtue and balance. A cornerstone to socialization is learning to share. Most parents begin early to try...

I recently completed writing the book Exercising Values so you can imagine how discouraging it was to learn that only ten percent of people who buy a book actually read it. I hope that I might beat those odds because Exercising Values is designed with your busy life in mind. It is a quick read...