Posted in parenting on Jan 6th, 2009
I have been listening with interest at Oprah’s recent musings on her weight gain—the battle of the bulge happens to a lot of us!!! Many of the overweight women that she has had on her show in recent years have said that they were so busy taking care of their families that they did not [...]
I talk a lot about Josh and now you can hear directly from him–he has a new blog about his work with Family Legacy Ministries – http://www.joshrives.com/ . It is amazing to see how God is using him with the orphans in Zambia. He’s a great guy and I’d think so, even if I wasn’t his [...]
I just spent a couple of days with some of the greatest people I know—my family. Unfortunately we were brought together for the funeral of my dear Uncle Mil. He packed a whole lot of life into his 88 years, and I’m grateful knowing that he is visiting with Jesus now.
It was awesome to get [...]
Posted in parenting on Nov 17th, 2008
My favorite parenting or teaching tip I learned lately:
If you want to change a child’s attitude or behavior —change your approach!!!!!!
Kind words, a soft voice, or even a song can get the attention of the most belligerent child. Sometimes just walking away is the best answer.
Posted in parenting on Oct 30th, 2008
I love Halloween!!!!
I love all the children in their costumes and the candy, of course, is awesome! I really don’t like all the scary stuff, like bloody masks and gravestones, I’m more into princesses, pirates and pumpkins!
Every year there is some parent or “expert” who talks about the ghoulishness and scary history of the holiday. [...]
Posted in parenting on Oct 29th, 2008
Over the last several days I have had the opportunity to talk to several people who are dealing with family tragedy—either sick parents, cancerous spouses, or ill children. Oddly none of them were concerned with how much the care cost, or what they had to do in order to help their family – money and time [...]
This last week has shown us a lot about ourselves—we are definitely a country, a society, a people of excess! Wall Street’s debacle is just one example– we are spending more than we can afford to — the news media continues to interview men who have lost millions of dollars this week, yet they still [...]
This week has reminded me that as mom’s we tend to worry a lot about our children. It really doesn’t matter how old your children are, we still worry about them. Preschool started this week, and there was a lot of worry by all those moms—will their child be safe? will the teacher take good [...]
Posted in parenting on Aug 20th, 2008
Michael Jordan has never been my favorite–not because he’s not a great basketball player, but because he made buying tennis shoes a battle in our house. Granted I’m sure that his shoes are great, but I never felt that you had to spend over $100 to get good tennis shoes. If paying more meant that my [...]
Posted in parenting on Jun 30th, 2008
It never ceases to amaze me how dumb some parents are—maybe the world is just getting a lot more liberal, but I prefer to stay in my own little conservative bubble–thank you!
My friend called me absolutely furious yesterday. Her nine year old son spent the night over at a friend’s house for his birthday; a [...]