When there are little irritations, I can either try to ignore them until my I compeltely lose my patience…or I can find a zip tie.
Category: Parenting
Sharing Space: Physically Meeting Our Kids Where They Are
Sometimes meeting our children’s emotional needs means entering spaces or sharing spaces that maybe we don’t normally. I’ve detailed some situations in which I’m learning to do this.
Why We Don’t Do Family Dinners
Do you know that you are “supposed” to have family dinners, but for whatever reason, they don’t work well for your family? Welcome to the club!
Autogenous Bitterness: When My Own Choices Breed My Anger
There are so many times when my anger and bitterness are a direct result of my decisions and choices. One example of my process of prayer and repentance.
“Hands Are Not For Hitting” and Other Tools for Curbing Harmful Behaviors
The step-by-step approach that worked for us when we needed to address hitting and biting.
Let’s Talk about Sex (and then talk about it with our children)
Sex. Questions. Kids. Awkward. Right? Not necessarily. The Bible doesn’t shy away from the topic of sex. Neither should we.
Tell Children the Truth, Even When Lying Seems Easier
There are some parenting situations where lying can seem like the easy way out, but it’s imperative to consider what these lies to do our relationship with our kids.
Natural Consequences: When Parental Intervention Is Unnecessary
Over-intervention in our children’s lives can be exasperating to them and exhausting to us. Natural consequences can help alleviate so much of that.
Parenting from Joy: Four Practices in Letting Go of Anger
Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.
Proverbs 12:16
Anger used to dominate my parenting, and these are some of the things I did that helped my repentance.
Ode to My Four Year Old Superhero
My middle child can have a lot of middle child qualities, but he also has some super ones.