Archive for February 2022
The Adult in the Room?
In our parenting efforts, we might find ourselves burdened by responsibility and outcomes that seem too heavy. We at any given moment may want to throw our hands up. It is helpful to pause and consider what the alternative would be. As parents we can easily find ourselves frustrated and even bitter when our efforts…
Read MoreAn Improved Version
We are bombarded daily with advertisements promising an “improved or updated product.” Our constant technology updates ensure us that we are getting more efficient performance with less problems. These opportunities come to us because mankind is a perpetual student always learning of a better way. Parents also can learn and improve upon our parenting. “Great…
Read MoreA Lost Dinosaur – ‘Kindness’
What ever happened to teaching our children manners? Did we get too busy or distracted? Did we let other influences wreak havoc on their sense of right and wrong? Kindness and manners are the essentials of a decent society. They are an appropriate behavior that will produce good for our children and for those who…
Read MoreHappy Valentine’s Day!
This is my annual reminder to parents to help their children navigate Valentine’s Day on a developmentally appropriate basis. We need to stand our ground and avoid the peer pressure put on us and our children to overdo this day. Media and other invasions in our lives have redefined and added to the simple “friendship”…
Read MoreTeach and Counsel
“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the…
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