How To Take An Active Role in Creating M...

By day, I am a professional photographer. I’m also a big fan of TED talks. When I saw this brief TED talk come across my subscription queue, watching it was an immediate must. A long time ago in New York City, Steven Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms, and his wife snapped a photo. That image inspired an annual father-daughter ritual, where Addis...

Football Team Protects Special Needs Stu...

Members of an Arizona high school football team rally to protect a special needs student from bullying. Chy Johnson, a sophomore with a brain disorder called microcephaly, is one of the new girls on campus, and she became an easy target for bullying from heartless teens. Chy’s mother contacted senior Carson Jones, the team’s quarterback, through a mutual connection simply to...

Facebook Parenting: What Would You Do?

This video has been floating around the internet recently, and it brings to light several questions about parenting teenage daughters…including “what would you do?” in this situation. It’s worth a look and discussion, though you may want to occupy your young children elsewhere if you wish for them to not hear certain words and language used. Response to this has...

Stepping Up Is Courageous

“If you’re going to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back to the crowd.” That quote impacted me deeply when I watched this video about a new feature film called Courageous that opens in theaters on September 30, 2011. The gentleman who said those words is Carey Casey, founder of the National Center for Fathering and periodic contributor to PrincessKeepers.com,...

Quote for the Week

“Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.”   ~Author Unknown