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Parents, It’s Your #1 Job to Get in Your Kids’ Way at All Times. Kids Do Not Deserve Privacy.

I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8). When I have to search a student's cell phone, I often get sick to my stomach at what I find. It gets worse and worse every year.

5 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child’s Life Without Even Realizing It

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

13 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Kids REFUSE to Do

Raising a mentally strong kid requires parents to avoid the common yet unhealthy parenting practices that rob kids of mental strength.

Jennifer Phillips

Jennifer Phillips is the author of Bringing Lucy Home and 30 Days of Hope for Adoptive Parents, and is co-author of the upcoming book Unhitching From the Crazy Train: Finding Rest in a World You Can't Control, written with Julie Sparkman. You can follow Jennifer at jenniferphillipsblog.com.

When Your Kids Won’t Bow to Your Idols

"I was worshiping at the altars of control, success, convenience, and let’s just say it—reputation. But my son refused to bow down. And I was furious."