advice on Smart Phones

If there is one word that sums up how many of us feel about technology and family life, it’s Help! Parents know we need help.  We love the way devices make our lives easier amid the stress and busy...

We swim in an ocean of feedback. Each year in the United States alone, every schoolchild will be handed back as many as 300 assignments, papers, and tests. Millions of kids will be assessed as they tr...

Advice, n. The smallest current coin.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

If it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.

It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.

I think most recommendations are bad because they’re one-size-fits-all. “Take more risks.” “Don’t be so hard on yourself.” “Work harder.” The problem is that some people need to take more risks, while...

We drink one another’s health, and spoil our own.

The daily e-newsletter 1440, tries to share regular stories of human kindness. This one, from Carl G. in Noblesville, Indiana, is quite touching:  My daughter just got married and was on Southwest...

Free advice is sometimes the most costly kind.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

There once was a popular shaman in India whom people would seek out for advice. People would stand in line for hours, waiting to hear the choices they should make in their lives or the changes that wo...

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

“Hey, you want some good parental advice? Don’t listen to me.”

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”

A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.

It’s a warning people have understood for centuries. Some advice needs to be taken “with a grain of salt.” Ever wondered what was meant by that? In ancient times, salt was hard to come by, expensive, ...

After the ship has sunk, a consultant knows how it might have been saved.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it to he most always like it the least.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

To believe one does not need counsel is great pride.

As Ellen DeGeneres put it in a 2009 commencement address, “My advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.” Celebrity chef Mario Batali advised graduates to follow “your own tr...

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man. Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

When do you schedule the “fun” activities on your short-term mission trips? JULY 2018 When I was in youth ministry planning mission trips, we often scheduled a short sightseeing adventure for the end...

It is better to give than receive — especially advice.

My counselor gave me the strangest advice a few months ago. Almost out of the blue, she said, “You should start waiting in the longest lines you can find.” She meant everywhere—at the grocery store, g...

Writer Harriet Sarnoff Schiff has distilled her pain and tragedy in a book called The Bereaved Parent. When her young son died during an operation to correct a congenital heart malfunction, her clergy...