by Lindsey Smallwood | Jul 1, 2017 | Parenting
There were so many things I looked forward to before having children, but one that couldn’t come fast enough was getting to enact the nightly ritual of story time again. (Seriously, not fast enough. I think we started reading books to our firstborn when he was...
by Lindsey Smallwood | Oct 1, 2016 | Faith and Culture, Spiritual Growth
One of the interesting things about becoming an adult is that I find myself asking fewer questions about the meaning of life. When I was a child, I lobbed a constant barrage of “whys” at my parents from the backseat, the dinner table, or our nightly check-ins before...
by Lindsey Smallwood | Jul 1, 2016 | Leadership, Parenting, Writing
I love to lead and teach. It’s a part of my natural gifting, the way I’m wired. These traits have been evident from an early age. My mom recalls with fondness the authority with which I lined up my stuffed animals in my bedroom after school, demanding their attention...
by Lindsey Smallwood | Jan 5, 2016 | Memoir, Spiritual Growth
On my first day of student teaching I met Jerome. I was training to work as a special education teacher and was assigned to a summer school class of fourth and fifth graders with autism and other cognitive impairments. It was a lively place. Jerome moved like a...
by Lindsey Smallwood | Sep 16, 2015 | Faith and Culture
Recently I read Ann Voskamp’s beautiful, heart wrenching post about the situation in Iraq. In it she outlines the impossible choices children face there – girls sold into sexual slavery, forced to have their virginity surgically remade only to be taken again and...
