EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
A while back, one of my friends told a story about a teacher who had been threatened by an irate parent. Why? Because she dared to discipline that parent’s child. No hand touched the child. The teacher merely corrected the child’s negative behavior. In response, another friend told a story about a teacher getting hit [...]
In my 20s, I lived in Wiesbaden, Germany. I worked at the U.S. Air Force Wiesbaden Hospital. Bright one morning in the summer of 1986, helicopters hovered over the hospital. My American friend and I were curious as to why the helicopter was landing so close to the hospital. As we watched just inside the glass door they would soon [...]
Eleven years ago, I was reading a “Woman’s World” magazine, and one article changed my thoughts on how many children is “enough.” At the time, I thought three was plenty. My kids were ten, seven, and five. I was homeschooling them, and we had a very busy life. Then I read an article about all the [...]
How I experience the Holy Spirit … and He helps me. I am feeling overwhelmed. Alone. I wonder if anyone notices me as I go through my busy day as a mom. Even if someone notices “what I do,” am I noticed? One of the most trying parts of being a mom is feeling like [...]
It’s my favorite time of year again. The leaves have changed and are at their peak. There is a sugar maple tree on the south side of our house that is glorious in its expanse of pure yellow. I like to sit under it and just soak in the color. I don’t do it enough, but every year [...]
It’s a scene that we’ve all witnessed and one that’s all too familiar to most moms: a screaming kid having a tantrum in the aisle of some store because he is not getting something that he thinks he wants and deserves. We all feel for the mom because we’ve been there before, and we all whisper [...]
Instilling these character qualities in our children takes intentional action on our part. These wonderful resources by Barbara Rainey from FamilyLife are available to help you. With captivating true stories to read as a family, these seven-day interactive devotionals saturate minds and hearts with memorable accounts and vivid illustrations of true heroes who made noble [...]
In early childhood, I was a tad bit chubby. Some people pointed out that it was baby fat. Others felt they were doing me a favor by citing that it was caused by my love of peanut butter. One day in preschool, I sat in a lunch room and listened to all the older kids [...]
