10 Great Reasons to Eat Dinner as a Family
I have my meals planned this week. But rather than posting my plan (it's just pasta Monday, fish Tuesday, meatless on Wednesday, frozen leftovers on Thursday), I thought I'd post my rationale for eating together. When I was out walking recently, my daughter Katie said to me, "You know what I like about our family, Mommy? We eat together.
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When you Don't Discipline the Same Way
One of the most difficult parts of marriage is agreeing how to discipline. When one parent is more lenient, and one is more harsh, often parents fail to back each other up, and instead form emotional bonds with the kids. Here's a situation that happened in our family recently:
One of our daughters, who had been very compliant, hit puberty,... >Read More
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Allowing Kids to Fail
Every now and then, an idea explodes through our collective consciences, challenging our notions about how life works. It happened in the fifteenth century when Galileo argued that the earth was round. It happened in the eighteenth century when upstarts in North America decided they wanted to govern themselves. And I hope, for some of you parents,...... >Read More
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Is Racism Natural?
There was a video on CNN yesterday that stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t footage from Thailand, or election coverage. It is a video of a little 5 year old girl sitting in front of an image of 5 cartoon children.
The children are all wearing the same dress and the same expression, only the color of their skin... >Read More
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The Gift of Giving
I never did believe in Santa Claus. My parents rejected the materialism that is so often peddled in the name of Christmas and kept the holiday pretty low key. I've always been grateful for this lesson, and rather cynical about those wild eyed Christmas fanatics running amok in the malls.
Since the thought of receiving gifts from a fat, bearded...... >Read More
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God Can Use Kids Too
A few things have converged in my son Jack’s life over the past couple months. Back in the spring, he and I began reading Take Your Best Shot by then-nine-year-old author Austin Gutwein. It is the story of a boy who decided he didn’t want to wait until he was all grown up to do something big for God.
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Prayer From a Parent’s Heart
As I sit down to write this article I am reminded of the awesome honour of being a parent. God has granted me the privilege of raising three of His special little ones, but with the privilege comes great responsibility and a lot of hard work. Perhaps more than any other area of life, parenting brings with it the... >Read More
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7 Facebook Essentials for Kids
#1 Parents must have the password
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Celebrate That Baby!
New life is always a celebration! When a new baby arrives in... >more
What Do You Fear?
