Posted in Preschool News on May 26th, 2008
Carolyn and I have worked together in preschools for the last 14 years, and we turn 50 four days apart. So after being invited to lots of children’s birthday parties and eating hundreds of cupcakes at school, we decided to invite all of our school to a 50th birthday celebration on the last day [...]
Posted in parenting on May 19th, 2008
Parenting adult children is a tightrope walk. Sometimes they want your advice, other times they do not, and usually that’s when you want to give it most! They have their own money, but they need your money too, and they don’t want your advice on how to spend or save either. They will often need [...]
Posted in parenting on May 18th, 2008
At what point does parenting end? Never!!!
Does it ever get easier? No, the stresses just change!
When your children are infants, you think things be easier once they can crawl—then they get into everything. Maybe it’ll be easier once they walk—then you are exhausted trying to keep up.
It’s got to be easier when [...]
Posted in Foster care, parenting on May 17th, 2008
I was born and raised a Baptist— a Southern Baptist. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior at the age of 7 and rededicated my life to Him at a Billy Graham Crusade in Laurel, Mississippi, when I was a sophomore in high school. My beliefs are who I am! What would [...]
Posted in parenting on May 13th, 2008
Now that I’m blogging, some of my friends have asked me to blog about things they’ve seen —thus, the following:
An 11 year old girls soccer team was playing last weekend in a tournament. Against an especially good team, they were all playing hard, but went into half time down one goal. As they [...]
Posted in Preschool News on May 11th, 2008
A mom asked me last week what she can do to help her child be ready for Kindergarten in a year— she’s in a three year old class right now and is the youngest in the class, and seems a bit delayed. My answer —”You cannot hurry development!” God made us to develop at our [...]
Posted in parenting on May 10th, 2008
Solving parenting dilemmas is often very emotional and very difficult. One of my favorite books to recommend is Kevin Leman’s Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours — it’s an entertaining read with lots of common sense from a man who has 5 children.
Another recommendation is Mike Roberts’ www.stopyelling.com. I heard [...]
Posted in parenting on May 5th, 2008
Last August I sent my “sweet little angel” off to college. This week he is returning home for the summer—yikes! Like his brothers before him, I know that this will be a challenge for him. While he has had a terrifc time being on his own, with his own schedule and rules, [...]
Posted in parenting on May 2nd, 2008
Wray and I went through foster parent training in Dallas county over 10 years ago. One of the ladies in our training class insisted that we not call children “kids”. She said “kids” were goats and children were children. The dictionary has 3 definitions for the word kid and a young child is the third [...]
Posted in parenting on May 1st, 2008
While sharing is hard, why is it hardest with the ones we love? Most children will jump on top of someone who is taking things from their brother or sister, but ask that same child to share their toy with their sibling and it’s absolutely NOT!
Case in point: Today at school one of my four year [...]