In an Undignified World Changing dirty diapers, wiping mashed bananas from the walls, and crawling along the cracker-dusted floor like a crocodile with your preschooler probably doesn’t seem very dignified. But consider a different idea of what it means to parent with dignity, and how that approach can positive impact your children’s lives. The dictionary [...]
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The Lessons a Laptop Shooting Parent Can Teach Us Have you heard about the one where the father shoots up the computer like a cowboy shoots up a saloon? While it might seem like a Wild West justice system, a father from California is either being hailed a hero for teaching his daughter a lesson [...]
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Old-School Apprenticeships Help Children Learn in Modern World It might sound really old fashioned, but apprenticeships are coming back in style, just like retro tees for women and Zubaz (ahh – the memories) for guys. And these aren’t the apprenticeships of old where you lease out your children as soon as they turn 13 so that [...]
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If you watch mainstream television, you might think that marriage is more like a side dish for families – where the stability of a marital relationship is an “extra” for the health, success, and future of our children. However, as I stood in church today I was again reminded that marriage is more like the [...]
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And How Can My Child Get Some of That? There are many gifts we would love to be able to give our children, but self-esteem is one of those we can’t just wrap up with a bow and hand over to them. We have to create environments where their self-esteem can grow and flourish. I [...]
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Teaching Kids to Make Good Decisions Decisions, decisions. As adults we can weigh the odds and use our years of experiences and (hopefully) levels of maturity to make the best decisions possible, whether it is which job to pursue or which book to read. However, our kids don’t necessarily have those years of experiences or [...]
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Why Refusal Skills Are So Valuable to Our Kids One of the most frustrating thing as a parent can be to hear your child tell you “No!” for various reasons, and it begins almost as soon as they can speak. We also probably wear on their nerves as we tell them “No” for so many [...]
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Wake up, sleepyheads! Getting kids ready for the day, especially school days, can be like swimming through oatmeal – you keep plowing through, but feel like you are getting sucked back into the mess. Even though we homeschool, our oldest attends college 5 days a week and we still must have a routine in our [...]
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A very frightening thing occurred in our home. I found out that I had failed to teach my youngest (age 8) how to vacuum the carpets. I had visions of birth order prophecies coming to fruition, and shivers up my spine about “spoiled” younger siblings. The 3 boys had just finished cleaning their room and [...]
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The skills needed to do well in college are most often not taught in high school. More than half-way through her first year of college my daughter has been learning a valuable lesson: success in college isn’t guaranteed by the credits and course descriptions on a high school transcript. In fact, professors on her campus [...]
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