Tag: children

I was sitting at work, eating my lunch alone, when I overheard a line from the next table: "Kids need lots of people who...

Every week my sons stand in the pew at Mass. Like stairsteps, all five in a row by age and height. Or like a...

My son stands in the center of his bedroom, wailing to the heavens while his sleepy brothers tuck into bunk beds. Tonight, there has...

By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review (Baltimore) My heart started beating faster and my face flushed when I glanced at the messages popping up in...

One of my daughters recently reunited with college roommates on the opposite coast. It was her first airplane flight since COVID-19, and the first...

Like students taking a test, we often assign God to boxes without realizing it: God will be present at church, in Mass or in...

Practicing Catholicism requires a sense of humility for everyone, but parenting Catholic children takes it to a whole new level. After having two babies in...

My husband and I don't have cable, a choice made in part to spare ourselves from the punditry served up by cable news shows....

Our bedtime routine with our 3-year-old daughter is quite simple. Bath. Nighttime snack of strawberries and grapes. Read books. Brush teeth. Potty. Say our prayers....

WASHINGTON -- Common Sense Media's recurring survey of screen usage by our youngest children was issued Nov. 16. What shouldn't be surprising is that children...