EVERY MOMent COUNTS!
Have a fever for some Bieber in your house? Or are you wondering what I am talking about? Justin Bieber — hailed as “Super Boy” in a recent Rolling Stone magazine spread. While I am no expert on the teen singer, I have a tween daughter and spend time with teen girls, who make up [...]
For generations, grandmothers have been admonishing young mothers to, “Enjoy this time! They grow up so fast! They’ll be grown and gone before you know it!” While it was hard to imagine how quickly my baby girl’s childhood would fly by, she is growing up too fast for my liking! And society isn’t helping. Today’s belly-baring and tight [...]
My beautiful daughter is suspended between childhood and womanhood. She still enjoys playing with her Littlest Pet Shop toys and climbing trees but yearns to be respected and treated as a young woman. Ashlyn is a sweet girl, snuggling in my lap one minute and rolling her eyes and stomping off in frustration the next. I [...]
I am Car Pool Queen … but it’s a disputable title! As school is well underway, I have plopped on my crown as the personal Car Pool Queen for Lexi and Autumn Gresh. Soccer practice, soccer games, voice lessons, birthday parties, play rehearsal, and “just one more thing” on the school supply list. I might [...]
A few weeks ago, a colleague in the Christian publishing and speaking world suddenly needed an audience with me and my team … and fast. You see, over the weekend his eight-year-old daughter had a sleepover with a nine-year-old friend. When his fourteen-year-old got on the Internet after they’d used it, she found herself seeing [...]
Tim and I are shameless Will Ferrell fans. In the movie “Anchorman,” he retorts after losing his job, “I’m completely miserable, San Diego!” He pauses and then says, “It’s so dang hot out here!” He then swigs back a gulp of milk that dribbles down his Grizzly Adams beard and says, “Milk was a bad choice!” This [...]
“Teens” is not a typo. I’m not talking about reading to toddlers, although I could write passionately about the value of reading to little ones. Today I want to challenge your thinking about teens. When we were raising our kids, very good friends of ours lived down the street. Their three girls matched our oldest three except [...]
by Tracey Lanter Venturing out to purchase a piece of clothing for your tween or teen daughter can be down right traumatic. The clothing choices the fashion industry gives can make your head spin. I do not aspire to dress my daughter like a woman, especially not a woman who never learned the meaning of the [...]
As a strong proponent of modesty who writes books for teens and tweens, I’m always told “You just don’t understand how hard it can be!” Women assume that since I’m trying to be a vocal proponent for modesty that my two teenage girls are the poster children for all things demure. Oh, please! My girls [...]
Whine, whine, whine—like fingernails down a chalk board to a mom! Just realize, ladies, once you get that one figured out, there’s more fun on the mothering horizon. When my children were young I remember being told, “Just wait until they get older, then you’ll get a whole new set of problems.” At the time [...]
