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...
by Michele Morin | Sep 1, 2018 | Parenting
I have a complicated relationship with parenting books. As a new mother, I read all the books, analyzed all the angles, second-guessed all the decisions, and the only thing that saved my sanity is that Google had not yet been invented. That tightrope walk persisted...
by Sarah Lindsay | Sep 1, 2018 | Parenting
A few weeks ago, my middle daughter asked to go to a local trampoline park as a family for her 7th birthday. We arrived at the facility, signed the hundreds of pages of waivers (I exaggerate only slightly), herded the children to a table, stashed shoes in cubbies and...
