How is Our Obsession With ‘Instant Everything’ Affecting Our Kids?
Are we carrying over our insatiable need for immediacy into the way we parent and/or how we manage the household?
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Are we carrying over our insatiable need for immediacy into the way we parent and/or how we manage the household?
Continue readingProjecting fear and worry based on potential circumstances or scripting how we will respond to this or that is trying to control an illusion. Only God knows the path for our kids and for us as parents.
Continue readingWhen we buy second-hand things, we are reclaiming part of the life story of someone else. Past experience breathes deep. We can’t help but absorb the invisible DNA.
Continue readingKids are easily stirred by the little stuff and consistently moved by the grandeur of God’s glory. Life has yet to dull their senses. We can learn from them.
Continue readingAs moms and dads, our felt experiences and reactions to all things parenting can be very different—the whole Mars and Venus thing.
Continue readingBut what if it was only ever me doing my mediocre half-ass best while serving up orange powder macaroni and wearing last night’s pajamas and yesterday morning’s makeup, wouldn’t it still have been the most amazing thing I’ve ever done, hands down?
Continue readingDo any of you feel like you scurry through life each day adding more items to an absurdly too long “undone” list? Just when do the things we need ‘to do’ get done?
Continue readingAnd as conduits of Grace and Mercy, our tweens and teens have an uncanny ability to dump the laundry basket of our neatly folded selves into a heap on the floor. Thank God. Really, God, thank you.
Continue readingI raised you to be a proud and compassionate and independent young man. That is exactly who you are becoming. Instead of celebrating your incredible victory (and mine) I remain steadfastly stuck in the past.
I would appreciate if you would bear with me.