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Mom Gives Birth to Family’s 1st Boy in 50 Years

"I just knew I was having a girl."

Parents, It’s Your #1 Job to Get in Your Kids’ Way at All Times. Kids Do Not Deserve Privacy.

I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8). When I have to search a student's cell phone, I often get sick to my stomach at what I find. It gets worse and worse every year.

5 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child’s Life Without Even Realizing It

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

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Mom Gives Birth to Family’s 1st Boy in 50 Years

"I just knew I was having a girl."

Parents, It’s Your #1 Job to Get in Your Kids’ Way at All Times. Kids Do Not Deserve Privacy.

I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8). When I have to search a student's cell phone, I often get sick to my stomach at what I find. It gets worse and worse every year.

5 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child’s Life Without Even Realizing It

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

Why I Miss the Sleepless Nights

"When I was in the throws of it and literally bouncing back and forth, like a ping pong ball, between the doors in the hall, I could barely see the beauty. But oh how I tried."

I’m Raising Kids to Leave Me

"It is our job to walk beside or behind them in these struggles. It is not our job to go before them."

It’s Never a Good Time to Invite Kids In

"Clearly, she didn’t think she was allowed inside. Conviction crashed over my spirit. Having a child think she can’t come inside my home goes against everything I believe about hospitality."

How the ‘Mommy Wars’ Gave Me Breastfeeding PTSD

I developed tons of guilt and shame surrounding my breastfeeding journey, leading me to term what I now call Breastfeeding PTSD. This is my story.

Today, I Cried

Today was hard. Tomorrow might be too. That’s okay. Some days won't have a happy ending. Some days there are no resolutions. But today, I cried.

How to Talk to Your Kid, Teen or Young Adult About God

"Spiritual conversations haven’t always been easy for me. This might seem like an odd confession from a Bible teacher and pastor’s wife. But it’s true."

To the Mom Who Wants Her 14-Yr-Old to Get Plastic Surgery Because “Ugly People Get Nowhere”

Your exact words were, "She will need to rely on her looks to get on in life so she will need to be perfect." Well I have a FEW WORDS for you...

An a Apology Letter From a Special Needs Mom

"We grow weary of explaining. Explaining that we still really want to feel included, but we may often have to turn down the invitation."