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Parenting Ditches: Western Parents Have Lost Their Minds
Parenting styles are like the ice cream choices at Baskin Robbins. There are lots of ‘em, and everyone has a fierce favorite. But I see ditches, and as a result, children in the ditches as well,...
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Are You Tired & Uninspired? (I Have a Plan)
It’s hard for me to admit, since I am a writer to women about all things home, even speaking nationally on occasion, that sometimes I struggle with my job at home. I mean, all out...
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The Kingdom Choice of Raising Children
“The efforts which a mother makes for the improvement of her child in knowledge and virtue, are necessarily retired and unobtrusive. The world knows nothing of them; and hence the world has been slow...
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If You Want to Give up on Mother’s Day: Lessons From the Garden
Spring. Fresh rain falling on soft ground, life sprouting, cool breeze, all is beautiful and new. A mother holds her fresh baby, life bursting forth from her own body. Was there ever anything more...
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7 Myths of a Full Time Homemaker
Myth #1: “You’re wasting your college education.” I’ve been told that before. (It could be argued that college was the waste. But, I digress.) When I was a high school English teacher, teaching the...
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6 Things Your Child Needs From You Today
There are things society (read: adult peer pressure) tells us we need to give our children, and then there are the things they really, truly need. Problem is, we can get so busy doing the former that...
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Raising Children When It’s Hard: My Reason Determines My Method
Originally published in 2012. We look happy, don’t we? We are. Sometimes. But not all the time. There’s something funny and horrible about the Internet–we can reveal or hide anything we want to about...
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Children Are a Handful So Let a Mom Be Tired
Last week we visited with an older lady whom we don’t see very often (not even every year). Not long after we greeted each other, she looked at me and said, “You’re too busy.” I smiled, and jokingly...
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Growing Children With Pluck: On Making Excuses Not Like Benjamin Franklin
Growing Children With Pluck: On Making Excuses Not Like Benjamin Franklin: As a mother, as I’m sure you do, I deal often with helping my children take responsibility, be determined and diligent, and...
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I’m Not Raising a Family (The Problem With Short-Sighted Living)
People are tired, frustrated, bored or discouraged. You can see it, hear it, feel it. What’s more, you might be one of those people. We all are at some point. And I think I know why: Because we measure...
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Why “I Can’t Afford It” Could Be the Best Thing For Your Children
Americans are pretty obsessed with “affording” stuff. I saw a quote recently, though I can’t recall it, that said something like: “We work all the time to afford all the things we never have time to...
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Portrait of a Courageous Woman of God, Elisabeth Elliot
A beautiful woman of faith, a true saint, fearlessly courageous, bold and devoted to her God, died this week. She was an early mentor of mine through books and audios, and her faithfulness has left an...
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The Old & Young Were Meant to Live Life Together
Mount St. Vincent, a nursing home in Seattle, Washington is experimenting with a new idea: sharing their day with a preschool. A filmmaker, Evan Briggs, captured on film the sweet interactions and...
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Encouragement for Homeschool Moms: Interview With Engage Conference, NZ
Yesterday, I had the privilege of doing a short interview with the Baines, who are with Engage, a Homeschooling and Discipleship Conference in NZ, coming up in August. I’ll be doing a live interview...
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Practical Money Saving & Making Ideas for Living on One Income
If you are a mom trying to figure out how to stay home but are concerned about your family’s finances, I want to offer some practical help and suggestions. I used to be one of those women. But guess...
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Reflections, a Half Year Later, On My First Born Being Married, to Encourage...
It doesn’t occur to you, until your first child gets married, that the years of mother work–nursing, staying up with fevers, changing diapers, teaching letters, adoring those chubby little...
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To My Friend Who Has no Babies
I’m reading a book now that you’ll be hearing much more about in the coming days, because simply put, it’s one of the best, most rejuvenating things I’ve read in a long while. If you are a woman, go...
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Our Family Deserves the Best of Us (Avoiding a Leftoverish Generation)
None of us would say that we believe our best gifts and energies and talents are better expended to strangers than to our own families. But we do believe that, deep down, because the feminist culture...
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What is Success in Parenting Teens? If You’re A Parent, You Can’t Miss This.
Parenting is hard. And if you’re like me, the longer you’re a parent, the more you realize you don’t know what you’re doing. Because every child, every temperament and every personality is different....
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Are the Duggars to Blame? How Then Should We Parent?
As happens every time the public is shocked with news, a vicious manhunt begins for the reasons “why” or “how” this could happen. It’s no different with the Josh Duggar scandal except for one thing:...
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