by Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family The countdown lasted for 18 years, but just a few weeks ago we reached the first of six “launches” in our household: my oldest son, Markus, graduated from high school. I’m sure any of you who’ve launched your kiddos into the world know how Ann and I are feeling [...]
by Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family It’s Father’s Day weekend, and as usual, a time for me to reflect on what has truly been one of the greatest blessings of my life: being a dad. This year, though, I’ve been almost overcome with the emotion of what Father’s Day means to me, because just over [...]
Note from Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family: This week it is my privilege and honor to introduce you to Dr. Meg Meeker as our Ziglar Family guest blogger. Dr. Meeker writes with the know-how of a pediatrician and the big heart of a mother because she has spent the last 30 years practicing pediatric and [...]
By Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family For as far back as I can remember, I would go fishing with my grandparents over the summer. It started when I would get out of school just before the long Memorial Day weekend. First, my parents would take me to my great-grandpa Charlie’s for a week; after that, I would [...]
A Guide to Family Love Languages We've prepared a 3-page download exclusively for use by Ziglar Family members. We wanted to give you a simple, yet effective tool to empower your family to understand and apply the love languages right away. With this refrigerator-ready resource, you will be able to Share everyone's love language results so [...]
Note from Mark Timm, Ziglar Family CEO: Today’s post is from guest blogger Julie S., an Australian wife (of 22 years) and mother of 7 beautiful children ranging in age from 21 down to 3 years old. Julie reached out to us in response to the Day 2: Communication challenge from the 7-Day Family Challenge. My [...]
by Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family You know how it is when you’ve got the most perfect gift for someone and you’re so excited about giving it to that person that you almost can’t stand it? That’s exactly how I’m feeling right this minute! For many weeks now my team and I have been working [...]
by Mark Timm, CEO Ziglar Family When you think of the word discipline, what comes to mind? Do you immediately think of a parent/child interaction in some punitive, uncomfortable, or just generally negative way? Or maybe you tune-in more to the root “disciple” and call to mind a kinder, gentler image of a leader/follower relationship. [...]
by Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family Is it just me, or does it seem like parenting today is a lot more complicated than it was for our parents and grandparents? I’d say the first few years are pretty standard from generation to generation, but once those babies reach school age and are exposed to [...]
Today’s blog post is by guest author Ann Timm, who blogs over at Keeper of the Home and — along with husband Mark Timm, CEO of Ziglar Family — raises six awesome teenagers! While both my husband and I speak English, there are many times that we speak different languages altogether. What I’m talking about [...]
