While shopping during the week, it isn’t unusual for me to see a mom with her young children, trying desperately to keep them under control. The kids are fussing, whining and standing up in the cart. Poor mom is trying to bargain with them…”If you sit down, Mommy will give you a cookie”. The cookie [...]
Embrace the Season You're In
October 28, 2010 By 8 Comments
8 Great Ways to Bond with Your Teenager
October 25, 2010 By 16 Comments
Having three (almost four!) teenagers in the home, I feel like I am finally beginning to understand a bit more about how young people think. Dreadful stories about teenagers are plentiful, I have a few tales myself. I certainly don’t claim to have all of the answers to raising teens. There are times I can [...]
Take Your Kid to Breakfast….THEN Ground Them
September 29, 2010 By 12 Comments
I can’t remember what the offense was…but it was a big one. All I remember is the particular child involved and the fact that despite our best efforts, my husband and I weren’t getting through to this child’s heart enough to inspire change. It had gone on and on, whatever the infraction was. We [...]
Parenting Series: The Middle School Years
August 26, 2010 By 3 Comments
As I find myself with two children in middle school this year, my anxiety level is a bit higher. Over the summer, planned conversations took place with each of my four older children about various topics. They are in a different place of understanding and maturity, and their questions are different than they were [...]
Mandatory Fun Time
August 24, 2010 By 16 Comments
Playtime…sounds like fun, but for some reason there are times that my children seem to forget how to play. I know when I was a kid, we played outside all the time. We had our bikes, roller skates, pogo sticks, swing sets and unicycles. When Mom said it was time to go out to play, that meant ‘do [...]
How to Build Character with Silly Bandz and other Useless Toys
June 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Surely I’m not the only mother in this country being plagued by the fascination of Silly Bandz from their children! I read a bit of the story behind Silly Bandz on Yahoo Finance, it’s not surprising that the creator of these incredible-profit-margin-pieces-of-rubber, worth less than a fraction of a cent, is making a [...]
Parenting Series: Birth – 24 months
May 24, 2010 By 4 Comments
Bringing a new baby into your family is one of God’s greatest blessings. It is a time of tremendous change and adjustment for the blessed couple, that’s why my discussion today will include the parents as much as the baby. This time of redefinition of yourselves personally, as a couple and as new parents requires [...]
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