When My Kids Don’t Obey
I’m happy to be able to say that my kids, more often than not, obey Edric and me. However, there are occasions when they don’t….
Category: Discipline
Kids Need to Snack…Well
Snacks aren’t the enemy of good nutrition. It’s the bad snacks. I actually let my kids take snack breaks during the day, especially while we…
Family Exercise
Edric started a routine of early morning exercise with our sons about a month ago after we discussed their need for physical fitness. He took…
Obedience and Discipline
As our children move up in their ages, training them in obedience doesn’t stop. Disciplining for disobedience, however, may evolve into different forms. When our…
Teaching Kids to Organize Their Things
As much as possible, I try to instill in my kids the value and discipline of picking up after themselves. Even little Catalina, at three…
Teaching Kids To Be Responsible for their Choices
Sometimes it’s hard to avoid rescuing my kids when they make mistakes. I have to resist the urge to save them because my maternal instinct…
Confessions of a Momentary Netflix Addict
I felt like an addict last week, watching episode after episode of House of Cards. After each Netflix marathon, uselessness and emptiness troubled me. The…
I Am Glad I Married a Man Who Didn’t Sleep Around
Edric and I will be fifteen years married in July. That’s not a milestone by some standards, but in a day and age when many…
Character, Character Building, Discipline, Father, God, Love, motherhood, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships
Disciplining Children Revisited
This is a follow-up article to the one I wrote on disciplining my 1-year old daughter, Catalina, which resulted in some eyebrow raising because I…
Make Time to Teach Character
It’s a challenge to hold Titus’ attention. I suppose this comes with being a more physical child whose hands are perpetually itching to do…
More Painful Than A Spanking
Since Elijah and Edan are way past the age when spanking is applicable or effective, namely between the ages of 1 and 6 years old,…
Disciplining A Little Fireball With Love
My fifth child, Catalina, was my first child to display her relentlessness and fighting spirit so early on in her life. At times I…
