Parenting

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.

13 Things Parents of Mentally Strong Kids REFUSE to Do

Raising a mentally strong kid requires parents to avoid the common yet unhealthy parenting practices that rob kids of mental strength.

Mama, Don’t Let Anyone Tell You How to Do Self-Care

It’s okay if it’s all too much sometimes and it’s okay to push through the tears and exhaustion. It’s okay to take a day at the spa and it’s okay if taking a shower every 2-3 days feels like a victory.

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...