Parenting

Forgiveness and Assurance of God’s Grace — A Spiritual Practice for the Guilt Parents Carry Around

The moms and dads that I meet carry around a lot of guilt. I include myself, first and foremost. I lost my temper.  I let them watch too much TV while I worked.  You don’t even want to know what I fed them for dinner.  I’m not making enough money to send them to college.  […]

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Four Reasons Why This Pastor Encourages Egg Hunts in Churches

The Saturday before Easter, my lovely congregation will be holding a little Easter Egg hunt with cupcakes, cascarones, music and laughter. Some pastors might argue this is liturgically, theologically or spiritually inappropriate. I don’t think so, and here are four reasons why. 1. The Easter date was chosen to coincide with a pagan festival… there’s

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On Kids Making Their Own Valentines and 5 Underachieving Valentines Ideas

Psssst. Lean in. I’m talking to you, mother or father or guardian of small children. You’re doing a great job. I know you’re really, really tired sometimes, and part of the reason is that it’s exhausting to do a bunch of little mundane but very important things like cut the grapes in half I mean quarters so your kids

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Ten Things Parents of Teens are Doing Right

Recently an old post (from 2010) called “Top Ten Mistakes Christian Parents of Teens Make” started making the rounds on Facebook again. While I don’t know much about the author, I’m deeply interested in the subject matter. Encouraging parents as they raise faithful children is a passion, and I wrote the book on it. (Ok, a book.

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