...Dad's reaction and openness about sin, and God's hatred of sin gave us assurance in dealing with the world when Dad wasn't around...
If you look at the quality of your trust, your smile may vanish, but if you look to the success of Him whom you trust, there will always be more than enough motivation to smile.
Have you ever given a gift to a young teen and watched her face draw up with an expression that was half irritation and half mockery, vividly showing her disdain for your stupid choice?
How do you teach a girl not to be shy? Is it right to demand self-confidence? What IS shyness?
(from "Lady With a Lot of Questions" article, Nov/Dec. 2000)
In less than 5 minutes, I taught my 3-year-old daughter, Amanda, to efficiently use a dust buster!
How do you make your children get along?
Calling all Teenagers... Normal, healthy, smart, beautiful, talented, needed, wonderful.... Hey - I’m talking to you.
My husband is a mechanic, and in his line of work he meets all kinds of different people, because everybody needs their car worked on at one time or another. There are at least two kinds of people, the thankful and the unthankful.
Parenting, like courtship, must be properly seasoned with joy. Parenting without joy is not only tasteless, it is tiresome. Joy is the expression of present lifeyet more, it is the energy and vision of life that shall be.