Don’t Force Your Children to Be Grateful
Thankfulness is choked out of our children by us trying to “make them grateful.” This happened to me. I grew up being thankful, but then I felt forced to be thankful, and suddenly I wasn’t thankful any...
View Article“I’m So Sorry, Mommy…”
My daughter Rachel ran into my room and burst out crying, “I’m so sorry, Mommy…” This was the second time in one week she had confessed her sin before I found out what she did. The first time was a few...
View ArticleSaturday: A Day in the Life
This morning my husband took the boys to the Men’s prayer breakfast. After breakfast, they all went on a factory tour of Goodrich, which apparently doesn’t sell tires any more; they make the brakes of...
View ArticleHow to Overcome Temptation
I was sitting one morning with my coffee, looking out the window, praying, when my daughter came and sat beside me in the dark. She blurted out, “I’m glad you put the nutcracker away. When I saw it in...
View ArticleA Rebuttal to the Courtship Movement
I’ve listened to many, many hours of workshops about the courtship movement in homeschool Christian circles. The premise is that young people should not date. When they are ready to get married, they...
View ArticleMultitasking Burns Your Dinner
As I was cooking dinner one night, I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss the buzz of the dryer, because the load contained shirts that I didn’t want to wrinkle. Meanwhile my husband called and said he...
View ArticleThe Aftermath of a Movie
My family usually doesn’t go to the movies unless it’s the dollar movies. Well, the last movie we saw as a family was “Brave.” It’s a cartoon about a woman who liked to shoot arrows and ride horses....
View ArticleHow Do You Teach Your Child to Pray?
How do you teach your child to pray? If the child is young, you can have the child repeat simple phrases about real issues. For example, “Please help me not to be selfish and to share with my sister.”...
View ArticleOnline Speech Therapy
I was compensated for an honest review of this online speech therapy, which I desperately needed for my son. We received 3 sessions for free as part of the review. A couple of months ago I noticed...
View ArticleRachel’s Surgery
I’m relieved that Rachel’s surgery is over and that we will not be needing a coffin or a wheelchair. For those of you reading this for the first time, you can read here about how I handled the news of...
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