Just So You Know
I am here to teach my kids they are beautiful, special, and unique, and yet their efforts in the world should aim not to claim that specialness and live in its glory, but to find it and draw it out in others.
The Collective Question
I must be willing to listen. Because was much as I believe what I believe with all my heart and soul and strength and being, I know that my enemy holds beliefs dearly too. So maybe we’re not so different.
Helping Kids Manage Money
We can’t expect our kids to learn what isn’t taught. It’s the parents’ responsibility to impart financial know-how, so talk about money.
Too Fast for Comfort
The things that keep our kids up at night are as poignant to them as the things that keep us up at night are to us. This was a moment to take seriously.
Rescue
My dress, loose in the water, floated around me and I felt simultaneously ethereal and grounded, other-worldly stuck to this spot in this pool in this moment for the rest of time. I couldn’t wait for the moment, the memory, to disappear and yet clung to it so I would never forget, never forget to hold him for the rest of my life.
Little Girl Growing Up
The changes in you lately are important ones, small and yet so huge the world turns on them. This is maturity. I see it in you.
I'd Like to Introduce You. . .
When we as a culture turn parenting into an identity instead of a responsibility, we pave the way for parents to focus more on their own need for validation than on their kids’ need for wise and Godly guidance.
A Vision for Summer
I have no illusions of providing my kids with a 1970s summer; I simply don’t think rest has to be a thing of the past. I want my kids to have a 2016 summer full of quiet mornings, non-agendas, and room to stretch out on the grass with a book.
One Day of Peace in a Schedule Gone Mad
I have learned, and am learning, that we cannot have it all. I knew that. I know it still. And I am trying to enjoy that which we have and let the rest go because it was not meant for us.
Encouraging the Tricky Questions
Every question is an invitation—your kids are asking you to help them make sense of a complex world.