Search Results child-rearing Family • Parenting • Relationships Oct 14, 2026 Understanding the Mom Brain: One of the Most Powerful Forces in the World It was a Friday morning in mid-July, and we were traversing the backroads of Southern Illinois en route to our final destination that afternoon: Madison, Wisconsin. It had been an […] Full Article Family • Health • Parenting • Relationships Sep 3, 2026 What Kids Need Most From Their Parents It was the morning of June 23rd, 2006, less than 48 hours after our twins were born. Amy and I were headed home from the hospital and they and their […] Full Article Parenting May 8, 2020 The Extraordinary Gift of a Stay-At-Home Mother It is 12:30 on a Tuesday afternoon. Our 8-month-old, Kate, has just awoken early from her nap after being unintentionally aroused by her 8-year-old brother, Will, who was determined to […] Full Article Parenting May 8, 2020 The Abuse Potential She is just wailing. 35 minutes after she started crying, nothing seems to make a difference. Not walking around. Not rocking her. Not patting her on the back or checking […] Full Article Parenting Nov 12, 2019 Why I’m Glad I Had the Strictest Parents on the Block, Now & Then Growing up, it was widely known that the Schroeder parents were some of the strictest parents around. It wasn’t that they were considered unfriendly by many of our peers, some […] Full Article Parenting Dec 22, 2017 Playing the Parenting Odds—Teaching Our Children to Do the Same About a year ago, my wife, Amy, and I had the privilege of talking to a group of teenage mothers, and those expecting, about many different topics related to their […] Full Article All Articles