Earnest Parenting.com logo

Encouraging Heroes. You can be one too.

Searching for a Long-Lost Sibling

Do you have a brother or sister you’ve never met? It’s not all that uncommon. Parents get remarried, biological mothers and fathers drift out of their children’s lives, and adopted children struggle to discover the family trees of their birth family....

Sibling Rivalry: The Age Wars

One of the big things I want as a parent in this house is peace. And harmony. I want that too. Unfortunately, I gave birth to 4 humans who are….human. They don’t always get along. Interestingly, the boys play together much better than I did with my...