From our ZagZig family to yours, we hope the Thanksgiving, holiday weekend and the official holiday season kickoff finds you blessed in many ways. In the hustle and bustle of shopping on black Friday or the tiredness you feel due to the turkey-tryptophan sleep myth, I am sharing a series of events – or in our house we call them “God Wink” moments – that make us realize we have so much more to be thankful for, and that I should gift wrap every electrical outlet, running faucet

My husband and I have been long-time fans of Parenting with Love and Logic, founded by Jim Fay and Foster W. Cline. It just makes sense, rather than yell, to enforce a consequence for every action – a child loses a pair of shoes and she replaces them when she raises the funds; forget a piece of equipment at home and he figures out how to practice without it. As the kids get older, the logic gets a little more challenging and my husband and I don’t always agree. MIKE: Admitte

Our teenager, the last child, Number 4, gave me a puzzled look when in the second act of the musical, Seussical, amidst the colorful costumes, vibrant lyrics like "a person is a person no matter how small," and the Cat in the Hat’s humorous actions, I started to get teary-eyed. Perhaps it is because once we opened up about ZagZig Parenting, I find parenting lessons everywhere, including in an entertaining musical during a scene with the Mayor and Mrs. Mayor of Whoville. Let m

Halloween was a couple of days ago, and at our house it meant the end of another long-standing tradition -- pumpkin carving. For years, we got out the newspaper, the knifes and other carving tools, but with the girls off on their own, the boys really had not interest in decapitating the pumpkin to pull out the seeds and stringy slimey insides. Was I upset by it? Hmmm…no not really. We are just entering another phase of life. In deference to Charlie Brown, “The Great Pumpki