by Liz Charlotte Grant | Mar 1, 2019 | Memoir, Parenting
My mother gave me the sex talk in fourth grade, only after my public-school teacher had shown the class an educational video on the topic, to my evangelical parents’ horror. So, to correct my public school’s overreach, my mother planned an excursion for her and me:...
by Bronwyn Lea | Dec 1, 2018 | Memoir, Parenting
The blue lines on the pregnancy test appeared within seconds to form a bright, blue cross: we’d never done this before, but we knew exactly how to read it. I waved the stick with glee at my husband: “Positive! We’re pregnant,” I squealed. I looked down at the test...
by Natalie Nyquist | Sep 1, 2018 | Parenting
The beginning of another school year often guarantees additional complexity and chaos in your schedule and family, which may already feel frayed and fragile. Each of our situations is different: only child or large family; homeschooling or traditional school; single...
by Julie Holly | Sep 1, 2018 | Parenting
Classroom windows open to walkways and gentle breezes unwittingly invite conversation into classrooms. As the spring day yawned to a close, I heard the shrill voice of a mother carry through my window screen. Her piercing tone and harsh words whipped out to flog a...
by Lara Krupicka | Sep 1, 2018 | Parenting
It hits me how this mirrors parenting. Lately, I have been paddling hard, telling my kids where they’re off track and how they need to change what they’re doing. I tire myself this way. Instead, I should simply set my paddle in, fixed on what I know God is asking of...
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Sep 1, 2018 | Parenting
Despite nearly two years of therapy, when our adopted daughter, Ruth, turned 3, she displayed the physical abilities of an infant. Once, during a rare family dinner at a local diner, Ruth, who had cerebral palsy and was deaf, raised her fisted hand to click a spoon...
