Author Archives: Julie Lyles Carr

There will come a day for you, if it hasn’t already. It will come out of the blue. You’ll be minding your own business, going about your day, slogging through the to-...

Proverbs 22:6 is one of the most frequently recited parenting verses. 'Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.' Does it really mean what we...

So we had this family meeting. Just a few short weeks ago. Chores were delegated. Assignment schedules were developed. Cubbies were cleaned out, rooms were straightened, expectat...

We all begin life on a fragile string. A thread—a life-sustaining, nutrient-giving thread. This thread connects the fragile to the established, the dependent to the provider. A curiou...

If you didn't catch our FB LIVE on parenting last night, you can watch it here. Leave a comment for your chance to win a copy of Julie's new book, Raising An Original. We will draw a winner at 10am on...

And then one day she just stopped calling. I didn’t necessarily notice at first. Life was busy, kids were messy, schedules were chaotic. We’d been really ...

I really have no excuse. I’ve been parenting too long for this kind of mistake. But there we were.Last night.2:30ish. In the ante meridiem. My nine-year-old son,...

More than New Year's Eve, the click of the calendar to the beginning of the traditional school year feels more of a fresh start to me than the wilds of January. Fresh notebooks. New pencils. Bold reso...

Who’s raising your kids? Really? Yes, I know there is all kinds of dialog about how engaged parents should be in child-rearing, how much or how little we should rely on bab...

We took a look in a previous post at the ages and stages at which my husband Michael and I allow our kids to have certain privileges and liberties. Which, in a nutshell, depends. ...