Travel as a Family: Life Lessons, with Luggage

You can describe an exotic or well-known travel destination to your children, but it’s not the same as stepping off the plane to let them smell, taste and feel another culture.   Ladia Cheng of Mundelein did just that. She wanted her teenage children to soak in her native Guam, so she packed them up […]

Chores Make Better Kids

We all know the routine. Ask a child to make his bed and pick up his dirty socks.  And hours later, the blankets are still twisted up on the bed, and the smelly socks still give the room a musky perfume. Rather than nag more, I sometimes think: “It’s easier if I just do it […]