Pursuing Peace at Home
Sometimes managing household help and a driver is stressful for me when their inter-personal relationships get complicated. When unsettled issues linger, their work and the…
Category: Father
Be An Honorable Parent
As a mom, one of the principles of parenting that has stood out to me the most is modeling – how my children copy my…
Family Values
When I married Edric, I had no idea what kind of a father he would be to our future children. I hoped that he would…
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…
A Trait All Gentlemen Should Have
Having three sons offers Edric and I many opportunities to learn about what boys are like and how they develop into men. One thing is…
Fathers and Children
A long while ago I wrote an article called “The Lost Boys,” in reference to men who have grown up without the guidance of their…
We Need An Everyday Husband/Dad
Edric and I were seated at the dinner table the other evening when I asked, “What was the highlight of your day?” to which he…
The Last Twelve Months of Boyhood
Elijah is turning twelve this month. He hasn’t experienced puberty yet but I am anticipating that it will happen soon, which kind of frightens me….
Bible, Events, family, Family Activities, Father, motherhood, Parenting, Parties, Raising Boys, Raising Girls
Halloween Hullabaloo
“Mom…don’t fight. You tell us not to fight, right? You and daddy shouldn’t fight.” Titus Mendoza. We weren’t really fighting, but we were engaged in…
The Respectable Husband/Father
With permission from my husband, Edric, I am writing this entry. “If I want my family to respect me, I need to be respectable.” His…
Bible, Character, Christianity, Father, God, Love, marriage, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships
Vomit
It’s not a pretty title but it’s my descriptor for what happened this afternoon, in the car, on Edric’s leg, on his leather shoes, on…
Father To Son-In-Law
This is something I should have posted last week, but here it is anyway… We celebrated a belated Father’s Day with my dad two Tuesday…
