Every child loves a good game of hide and seek. There are the fun butterflies they get in their tummies when they’re waiting to be discovered and the pride they feel when they’re able to count to ten and then yelling, “Ready or not, here I come!” But children who are hidden from the U.S….
Tag Archive: Child
Teens and Respect
Thank you all so much for the discussion that we had on last week’s topic. This week I wanted to focus on respect. Sunday I picked up the latest issue of Home Life magazine at church (shameless self promotion, I am quoted on page 54). I also picked up the February issue and it had…
Understanding Tweens…is it possible?
Image by hyperboreal via Flickr I am an all or nothing kind of gal. The upside: I am fiercely loyal, totally committed and extremely stubborn determined. The downside: I am extremely determined stubborn, a tad perfectionistic and a smidge moody I was on the downside of my personality lately. Parenting 12 and 13 year olds…
Contentment and Kids
I realized something this weekend. My children do not possess a spirit of contentment. Maybe it’s the catastrophe in Haiti, maybe it is reading the Bible in 90 days, maybe it is observing how my kids handle disappointment…I don’t know. But, I do know that I am deeply convicted that it needs to change. To…
The Stranger in the Bed
So today, here’s the question I want to ask: have you ever been at a low point in your marriage? How did you turn it around? It was a Friday in early 2004. I won’t go into how frustrating a time it was that the school system was unable to deal with a troubled boy,…
