Go. I’d be a liar if I said I wasn’t afraid for the future. His future. The other day I talked about the childhood years and how long we have with our kids. It simply isn’t long enough to assuage the waves of worries that can plague my husband and I if we start thinking […]
Raising Cain, er, Raising Teens
Several months back, I launched a group blog for Christian parents with tough teens. It’s a small niche. Very small. Either Christians aren’t talking about it, homeschoolers aren’t talking about it, or it’s truly a smaller problem than we first thought. I believe the former two. As Christians, God sees us for who we are, […]
Noise, Noise, Noise
There are many types of noise. In our house, we have typical noise, just as I’m sure your house has it’s typical noise too. We have things like boy noise, dishwashers, hair dryers, yapping Pomeranians, kids playing, music, and XBox games. Another kind of noise that I seem to encounter is the noise that leads […]
Christian Crack
It goes by many names: Coffee, tea, soda, latte, iced tea, energy drink, pop, and mocha, among others. What do they all have in common? Caffeine. Otherwise known (jokingly) as ‘Christian Crack’, caffeine, it seems, is what makes the world go round. Or at least it helps make the Church go round. I hadn’t really […]
Get Real and BE Real
Teens are famous for conforming to a clique or style of fashion to “be different!” (from Mom & Dad), when they are actually blending right in with all the other kids they hang out with. They successfully keep from being different, thereby actually hiding who they really are. I see it all the time in our youth group.