Equipping Parents for The Journey
Are you and your family drained by lack of sleep and the nightly hurt of a child's nightmare? Nightmares are most common in children ages 6 to 10. As children's minds develop and they become more aware of the world around them, there is more for them to process, more to understand, and...
My waking thoughts are sometimes not the most pleasant. Some days they sound like, “here we go again” or “please, God, let today be better than yesterday.” I can get swept up in a “circle mindset” that feels to be a never-ending vortex of chores, laundry, tantrums, and fatigue. I am tired, overwhelmed, discouraged,...
This is the face of hunger in your community. For too long I had felt that food pantries, SNAP food programs, and food donations drive were to help people in other places. But every community in this country is home to families who struggle with food insecurity including rural, and suburban communities, not just...
In an unpredictable world we live in, predictability can anchor our children's need to feel secure. I struggled with routine and schedules for my boys when they were young, going an entire day feeling like nothing was accomplished. Some days were great, and some days we struggled to get anything completed. If we focus...
We have been with our littles 24x7 for months as we navigated this pandemic. Now that we are starting to return to preschool, play activities, even church our kids seem to be suffering more or new separation anxiety. While it can be so hard to seperate from our children when they are crying, upset...
As we start to consider our lives post COVID-19, what seemed so important 6 months ago may no longer seem important. Is attending and being involved in your local church on that list? Have you asked yourself, why do our kids need church? Why do our families need to be engaged in their...
Our family schedules went from busy and over-packed to blank over night. The first few days were great. We retreated to our homes to get some extra rest, baking and watching movies, and it felt almost idyllic. But now a couple months into sheltering in place, school at home, and and activity limitations, the...
Telling the Easter story can be confusing and even a little scary for our little ones. After all, we tend to use lots of words they are not familiar with, and we talk a lot about death. So in our "stay at home" situation, our Ministry Leader for Early Childhood, Kristin Langford, provides us...
It seems counter intuitive to look at this time in history as an opportunity. But why not take the challenge to change the view of all that is going on in the world under a different lens. What if you were to step back and instead of focusing on the limitation you and...
It seems the world has been turned upside down. But one thing we can count on is that your new baby will still need to be fed, changed, snuggled, and loved. Even if you have been a parent for a long time, and your baby is no longer a baby, there is good advice...
In our recent Straight Talk: Raising Digital Natives, we shared insights and recommendations to help you step into your iGeneration’s digital universe and parent in a world so different from the one you grew up in. Who is an iGeneration or Digital Native? The iGeneration was born after the year 2000 and is the...
I used to be so cool! I drove a sports car. My wife and I would eat out all the time. I was in really great-ish shape. Saturday mornings, I would sleep in. It seemed like we were doing too many fun things, but this was before we had kids. Before having kids, I...
