Parenting

"I heard what they said about me, those teenage girls. I heard every word. So did you."

"I could hardly make out anyone or anything through the tears. People were eating fast food around me, laughing, texting. I on the other hand was a wreck. I kept my face down, my face was drenched in tears. I kept telling and giving myself every reason to go through with this even though I did not believe in it."

I see women diminishing or suppressing other areas of their life because God has called them to motherhood.

I'm raising a Dollar Tree princess, who moonlights as Batman, likes to smell like Barbie, brush her teeth with ninja turtles, rock sunglasses of every color of the rainbow, buy bandaids like they are going out of style and break rubber bands like it's her job.

I see it over and over, these posts where a mom shames their child publicly on social media, toting the virtues of making your kid learn the hard way.

According to Barna Group, 70% of kids raised in Christian homes will walk away from the church after high school. 

"Will sitting five-years-olds in a desk for eight hours to complete worksheet after worksheet really produce the best outcome for future academic excellence? I say, hogwash. I say, let them be kids."

The privacy your child thinks they deserve? Umm…nope. Your house, your bills, your rules. Privacy comes when our children are “off our payroll.”