What Every Parent Needs To Know About Spanking
If you’re ever at a loss for how to piss a lot of people off in one fell swoop, criticize parents for spanking. That will do it every...
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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Jan 12, 2017
- 6 min
Stop Arguments Online Like a Mom
My husband is completely convinced that there are Jews somewhere in my Polish lineage. Because three of my great joys in life are being...
- Dec 24, 2016
- 3 min
Santa and Grief
A mere week after we held a small burial for Susan, it was Christmas. We attended Christmas Eve children’s mass as usual. After service,...
- Dec 23, 2016
- 5 min
Jesus Saved Our Christmas Dinner
We have a seating problem in our home. Well, two of them actually. The first is that our chairs don’t match and the folding chairs have...
- Dec 22, 2016
- 1 min
The Christmas Bird
Instead of doing my Christmas shopping a couple of years ago, I recorded this. It’s perfect for sharing with the kids, if they are the...
- Nov 22, 2016
- 4 min
Thanksgiving Family Survival Guide – 2016 Edition
Such a pretty picture. Now imagine that they all hate each other. An oldie but a goody! BTW, if you read these and know exactly what I’m...
- Jul 28, 2015
- 8 min
Good Luck With That “Normal” Thing
Perhaps you have heard that I have some children. Entirely more than a respectable woman ought to have, in fact. I have even heard tell...
- Sep 23, 2014
- 2 min
Allow Me to Share the Holy Grail of Parenting
Seriously. Try it. It’s a long term strategy, but it works. And it’s much, much, much easier than continually forcing your will on...
- Jun 17, 2014
- 4 min
THIS
This is what God would want those who claim his name to hear today. Like really today. Right here in the reality that is whatever day it...
- Jun 12, 2014
- 8 min
Suffer Us Little Children
What parent doesn’t want to be a better parent to their kids? And what Christian doesn’t desperately wish to be truly humble? (OK, almost...
- May 30, 2014
- 6 min
When Parents Disagree
What I’m about to say flies in the face of nearly everything you’ve ever heard on the subject of how to handle disagreements between...
- Apr 18, 2014
- 6 min
Raising Moral Kids Pt. 3
Let’s say that you take your young child to a friend’s house and while she is there, she breaks a toy. Would you prefer that she: A....
- Apr 17, 2014
- 4 min
Raising Moral Kids Pt. 2
So, I started telling y’all about an interesting article on what research can tell us about raising moral kids. Today’s take-away from...
- Apr 16, 2014
- 3 min
Raising Moral Kids, Pt 1
I thought this was a great article in the NYT about what researchers have to say about raising moral kids. A lot of it is stuff we all...
- Apr 15, 2014
- 8 min
The Injured Easter Bird
Once upon a time, there was a farmer who decided not to go to church on Easter Morning. He’d been going his whole life, but a few years...
- Apr 10, 2014
- 4 min
My Amazing Discipline Trick!
One of these days, I’ll have to tell you about my oldest son Noah. He was really something. Even my mom didn’t want to watch him. And she...
- Apr 9, 2014
- 2 min
Great Power and Petty Beligerance
Yesterday, I wrote about how the changing role and nature of authority in our lives demands that we change the way we parent our kids....
- Mar 24, 2014
- 2 min
Men, Sex and Love
I would really, really like to quote the entirity of Micah Murray’s post on the idea that men give love to get sex and women give sex to...
- Mar 24, 2014
- 3 min
Christians and Interracial Marriage
Guys, what is this world coming to? Aljezeera America recently used the parable of the talents to explain current events. Christianity...
- Nov 18, 2013
- 6 min
Of Teen Boys and Scantily Dressed Women
I don’t usually write about parenting, in part because it feels like tempting fate. I’ll write parenting advice and then my kids will end...
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