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Why letting your kids struggle is good parenting
The opposite of good parenting is doing the easy thing in the short term. Now don’t get me wrong. There’s a certain parenting high when […]
The opposite of good parenting is doing the easy thing in the short term. Now don’t get me wrong. There’s a certain parenting high when […]
If you have kids you’ve probably thought about sibling rivalry. It’s kind of like debt or a skin rash: You don’t think about it until […]
Every home has rules. Even the homes without rules have rules. (‘No rules’ is a rule!) Some are spoken, like ‘Put the toilet seat down.’ […]
Every single parent I know wants to do a good job raising their kids. But after that, the unanimity about how to do it usually goes out […]
You and I both wonder, Who will my daughter marry? No matter who it is, the young punk (er, I mean, young man) will most certainly not […]
Life can get complicated. And expensive! If you have kids, you know there are infinite ways to spend money on them. To quote The Grinch Who […]
By the time a child is six they are a living, walking blueprint of who they will be for the rest of their lives. Will […]
I should warn you that this blog speaks of serious, difficult, and sex-related things. But I felt strongly I should write it. Why? Because the changing […]
Maybe it seems like an unlikely scenario. But that’s exactly what happened. In Bangkok, two children walked to up two women who were smoking. With […]
A parenting degree doesn’t exist. Nothing can prepare you. As social scientist William Doherty says, parenting is “a high-cost/high-reward activity.” There’s nothing like those wonderful giggles. […]
It took me a few years to get it, but I have now accepted the obvious – namely, that summer holidays aren’t about me. Vacations […]
This isn’t one of those lists that tells you to start doing a bunch more things so that (a) you have more stuff to do […]
Has this ever happened to you? Our family was in Target today, doing some back-to-school shopping when my almost 4 year old said he really, […]
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” (Unknown) I’m a new dad. Well, not that new. And I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but […]
When I was about old enough to know nothing I remember asking my mom, “What’s mother’s day?” She told me. I replied (as all kids […]
This is the first in a series reflecting on life as we’ve journeyed with my wife’s mom during her battle with cancer.Hope fuels Christian living, […]
Will our kids believe? Do they? This is a big question. Even before I had kids I was reading about our own homes being mission […]
I was chatting with a parent this week. She wanted to be thoughtful and faithful about it. Yes, the Easter bunny is around. But how […]
This story juxtaposes dramatically with last week’s leper who says to Jesus “If you will, you can make me clean.” Here, the friends say “we will!” and get rather hands-on to prove the point. The emphasis is on our own faith and therefore on our actions rather than on our ability to persuade God to act. Which is probably a good place to be as we approach Lent.