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Keeping December 1st Sacred

In our family December 1st is one of the most sacred days of the year. Come rain, snow, sleet or hail nothing can stop this day so sacred (Ya, I know, it doesn’t rhyme but you try rhyming with ‘sacred’). On this day of days I enter the crawl space and haul plastic tote after plastic tote up the stairs. Christmas ornaments, decorations, lights... >Full Story

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3 Destructive Thoughts

>> Watch part 2 of this series: Creative Parenting New to this series? Watch the introduction video here You know there’s some lines of thought that are so destructive when it comes to parenting. Destructive line of thought #1: I’ll work hard now and be able to play later. One line of thought is this: Well I’ll work hard now...... >Read More



What They'll Never Forget

>> Watch part 7 of this series: Creative Parenting New to this series? Watch the introduction video here You know a way that will help you to be creative in spending time with your children that they really enjoy and leaving memories, is something I did. I never did much with my father because he was always drunk. I was more... >Read More



Be Original and Unusual

>> Watch part 5 of this series: Creative Parenting New to this series? Watch the introduction video here You know, I often said that if we’re going to impact our children, we need to spend time with them. And one of my philosophies is when you spend time with them, have fun! Do in-ordinary things, do things that other fathers wouldn’t...... >Read More



Think & Perceive

>> Watch part 10 of this series: Creative Parenting New to this series? Watch the introduction video here You know if we’re going to impact our kids for Christ, we need to know only share spiritual things with them, look for spiritual opportunities to step in and minister to them, to answer their questions, but we need to create opportunities...... >Read More



Father’s Love

>> Watch part 9 of this series: Creative Parenting New to this series? Watch the introduction video here Greatest security of a child today is knowing their father loves their mother and they will not divorce. Here are ways I showed this: What I always tried to do was to find everything I could to reinforce my love to my children’s...... >Read More



Creative Parenting

>> Watch the other videos from the Creative Parenting series How do young people spell love? T-I-M-E.  They did a study of 300 7th and 8th graders. They wanted to find out how much time does a 7th and 8th grader spend in a meaningful conversation. In other words, in a conversation that is not just meaningful to the father... >Read More



Be Time Creative

>> Watch part 8 of this series: Creative Parenting New to this series? Watch the introduction video here You know, I keep on emphasizing this and hammering it home: it takes time, and be creative with your time. This is probably one of the last segments we’ll spend on this, but I want to give you two examples. Look at flowers and... >Read More


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