I never knew I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom until I became a mom. My daughter was 2 when I graduated from college and was offered what might have been considered a dream job, but for so many reasons, I turned it down and made the move to become a full-time stay-at-home mother. I [...]
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Recharge and Renew Yourself Parenting is tiring, and is sometimes absolutely exhausting – especially if you are trying hard enough. One of the biggest dangers of overscheduled parents is that the exhaustion can turn into a collapse of everything you have been working so hard to teach, share with, and learn from your children. This [...]
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Do you hear the term Christian parenting and think of rods and spoiled children, or parents using the Bible as a dogmatic force – shouting out the Commandment of Honor they Father and Mother? You are probably not alone if you do, but the ideas behind Christian parenting are really based on a foundation of [...]
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Parenting isn’t about knowing everything and instilling overflowing amounts of wisdom upon our children, no matter how much we wish that to be the case. As prepared as we hope to be when we bring our little bundles of joy home, there is nothing that can prepare us for the lessons we will be taught [...]
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How Bad Jokes and Silly Stories are the Foundation of Communication Boys – those mystical creatures who fill our homes with mayhem and moments to treasure. Raising boys is sometimes like navigating a mine field of bottled energy, strings of confusing and humorous conversations, and armpit farts. As the mother of three sons, I’ve seen [...]
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Does your child dream of being a firefighter, teacher, doctor, or newscaster, or does she instead make plans for the store she will own or the company she will run? Children love to dream big, and they often change those dreams as quickly as they zip through the hallways of our homes. I’ve recently been [...]
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Separate Vacations Can Be Just the Right Thing for Your Family Moms and dads should always vacation together and share hobbies, right? Let’s change the question. How boring would we be if we only loved the exact same things, only wanted to do them with each other, and always felt we needed to share every [...]
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The worst things about being a work-at-home mom (WAHM) can also be the best things, but it takes some perspective searching to see them that way some days. There are wars that are waged, either fighting the tide of household responsibilities, juggling client needs, or self-inflicted guilt wounds of motherhood. Finding peaceful resolutions are not [...]
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You put your kids in car seats, take them to well-baby check-ups, feed and shelter them. However, are you doing the one thing that will have some of the longest reaching health and social implications for your child? Are you keeping your marriage a priority? The Risks of Divorce for Our Kids If your family is [...]
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Hearing the Diagnosis It is an extremely devastating and difficult time for parents when they learn that their child has a medical condition. A tidal wave of emotions and change of course for the entire family is suddenly thrust upon their shoulders. Fifteen years ago I was sitting in a college lecture when I was [...]
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