“Shut Up, Mommy,” Saith the toddler
I have always been pretty lax about rude, disrespectful kids. Yet no one who spends time with my kids would ever describe them as rude...
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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Dec 7, 2011
- 1 min
What sort of garden do you grow?
That is what is at stake as we parent: will we send a healthy, thriving plant out into the world? Or will we be sending out an artichoke...
- Dec 6, 2011
- 2 min
Telling the difference between an excuse and a reason
1. Somehow everything is my responsibility 2 Everything that goes wrong is my fault. 3. What I want or think is almost certainly wrong....
- Nov 29, 2011
- 2 min
What Michaela is Teaching Me
Michaela with her lovely first grade teacher Michaela is my oldest daughter. After having 2 boys, I really wanted a daughter and...
- Nov 19, 2011
- 4 min
Homework in kindergarten
An example of my 1st grader's homework So, I have my kids in the local public schools which has real drawbacks and benefits. One of the...
- Nov 15, 2011
- 3 min
Let’s talk about sex, baby!
In the early ‘90s Salt-n-Peppa famously sang “Let’s talk about sex, baby” and boy, oh boy do we take their exhortations to heart. Sex is...
- Nov 8, 2011
- 1 min
“No Crapping in the Middle of the Living room!”
Interestingly, God has faced these same sort of struggles with us, albeit with much more serious issues: “They have built the high places...
- Nov 2, 2011
- 1 min
The real reason prosperous humans have fewer kids
I think that those countries trying to boost fertility rates could help a lot by making it easier to pay for household help for families...
- Oct 31, 2011
- 4 min
What I think God would say about abortion
On the topic of abortion,this is the sort of message I think that God would have us spread: in a truly good, loving world that was...
- Oct 7, 2011
- 5 min
Mom’s Going Crazy Recipe
I didn’t punish a lot. I yelled, but always let the kids know that freaking out was a fault of mine and let them see me struggle with...
- Oct 6, 2011
- 1 min
Question for Parents: “Are you angry?”
Is there a place in parenting for holding anger over our kid’s head? If your kid doesn’t have to deal with anger when he screws up...
- Sep 28, 2011
- 3 min
Is it my fault he smells like cumin? Thoughts on parenthood
We live in an era of high-stakes parenting. I read a copy of Scholastic Parent & Child magazine the other night and wanted to give my...
- Sep 26, 2011
- 3 min
What Olivia is Teaching Me
Then there are the things she gets backwards. We’ve been encouraging Olivia to talk because she’s so good at communicating using body...
- Sep 22, 2011
- 5 min
Raising a bunch of characters
There are several problems with situational ethics. First of all, how do we know what the right thing to do is? What are the...
- Sep 21, 2011
- 8 min
I am not the Pioneer Woman –
Not The Pioneer Woman! For the 3 of you who do not know, The Pioneer Woman is Ree Drummond, a homeschooling mother of 4 who lives with...
- Sep 7, 2011
- 2 min
Today I’m thinking about school – Update
After thinking about it for a while and talking with the school principal to get his take on what the core of the issue might be, I...
- Sep 2, 2011
- 2 min
Today I am thinking about school
Here’s the dilemma I am wrestling with: these are all normal parts of middle school, but are they acceptable? Is my son who is having a...
- Sep 1, 2011
- 6 min
Heads or Tails?
We assume that this verse means that the husband should lead his wife, but does Christ really lead the church? We have no record of...
- Aug 30, 2011
- 1 min
Things I always tell my kids
Dumb people never learn from their mistakes. Smart people learn from their mistakes. Wise people learn from the mistakes other people...
- Aug 27, 2011
- 2 min
Desiderata
Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be...
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