It’s inevitable that four kids will argue, dispute, compete, and be at odds on occasion. When I say on occasion, I mean at least once…
Sometimes raising boys makes me a little crazy…their seeming inability to modulate their voices, the perpetual movement, the mess, the competing and clashing of their…
After researching about the Newtown, Connecticut shooting yesterday morning, I clicked on a link that led me to “attacks on primary schools that have occurred…
From time to time parents ask me how to discipline a child who is misbehaving. They want to know if spanking is the solution. Some…
When my kids do something foolish or make wrong choices, I often feel the temptation to “fix” the situation by bailing them out of their…
I thought I might actually cry as I watched the San Marco Chamber Orchestra perform Virtuosi di Venezia, a tribute to Antonio Vivaldi. Never in…
Moderating disputes between my two older sons is getting to be more challenging. I don’t have to do it very often but today, I noticed…
Dr. Gordon Neufeld, a foremost child developmental and clinical psychologist from Canada, made this statement during a talk he gave on Why Home Education Works……
The other evening, as I was about to meet Edric for a date, Titus asked me, “Why do you have to go out on a…
I was at a convenient store with Edan, when he said, “I want to get something for Elijah because he got me something last time….
We just got back from Bataan. What a weekend! It was a joy to serve CCF Bataan. Edric gave today’s Sunday message, and yesterday, we…
During lunch, our boys had an “incident.” After Edric and I had excused ourselves from the table, we left the two younger boys to finish…
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