On graduation night at Parents' Academy, families are blessed with two complete outfits for their young children because of the generosi

We make a huge investment of time in our children. It seems like we never get a moment to ourselves....little ones require ALL our time. Tha

My daddy... Richard Ficklin Young, with a pile of children on his lap. I am the privileged one with half a lap to myself in this photo. My sister was an only child for almost two years when I came along. My brother followed me in 13 months, so sharing Daddy's lap was a necessity. Back in those days (when photos were still black and white), parenting roles were pretty black and white as well. Daddy went to work, mowed the yard and took out the trash and Mom did everything else including all the cooking, shopping, housework, gardening, sewing, helping with events at church and school and basically 100% of the direct child care. My dad worked a lot of overtime to feed our growing family (three

You don't start with , "I know just how you feel". Because you don't. Even if you have gone through a similar experience,