Ken Potts
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Let your values guide your life choicesJul 08, 2013 10:18 am - Remember the old Bette Davis classic “Dark Victory,” about the rich and beautiful young socialite who discovers she has only 10 months to live? Davis’ character moves t...
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You can ‘get away’ from it all without leaving homeJun 30, 2013 9:00 am - According to a recent survey of the real estate industry, second homes are today’s hot properties. Whether it is the home by the lake, a Florida condo or an old farmhous...
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How our eating habits reflect our self-conceptJun 20, 2013 11:33 am - “If you’re good, we’ll stop and get an ice cream cone on the way home.” Smart parenting, right? Well, maybe not. Most of us have sort of a love/hate relationship with ...
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Recommit to being better dads this Father’s DayJun 13, 2013 11:29 am - We want our dads to do a lot of things for us. Of course we want them to love us, to hug us, to comfort us when we are scared or lonely, to pick us up when we fall down....
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Weekends are the time to go at a more leisurely paceJun 06, 2013 11:33 am - “You know what I hate about Friday? It’s two days closer to Monday.” I was a bit taken aback by my friend’s comment. It was hard for me to imagine somebody dreading the ...
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Honesty about emotions can head off conflict at homeMay 16, 2013 11:32 am - Within a minute or two of when your wife, child, parent or husband gets home, I’ll bet you know exactly what type of day they’ve had. All of us live in a variety of worl...
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We all have basic needs that must be met to fuel our growthMay 09, 2013 10:42 am - We all have needs. That’s obvious. Sometimes what we need isn’t so obvious. Take kids. Certainly they need food, clothing, shelter, protection. But there are a whole hos...
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Unique children require unique approaches to parentingMay 02, 2013 10:37 am - At 2 years of age, our youngest son had mastered an incredible vocabulary. Unfortunately, none of it is in any language we knew. With one exception: the word “no.” In f...
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Gender stereotypes are always changingApr 25, 2013 10:15 am - “Now that’s a typical male response!” I was in the middle of watching the Olympics. My outburst was not in response to anything I had heard on TV, but to what I was “hea...
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Rebuilding trust in marriage takes hard workApr 18, 2013 10:57 am - Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series. Last column we discussed trust and its significance as the necessary foundation of any growing, intimate relation...