Tag: 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 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.”

All three of you, my children, experienced this horror first hand as your high school came under fire in a merciless school shooting that took the physical lives of three of your classmates and an incomprehensible number of emotional lives in its wake.

"How do good parents miss child sexual abuse? It is simple. By not asking the right questions. Try to remember to make these 5 questions a consistent habit."