Family Held Together by Promises

What is a family but a community of promises made and promises kept no matter what? A family is not just two or more people related by blood who happen ...

No Exemplary Families

In Like Dew Your Youth, Eugene H. Peterson writes:

A search of Scripture turns up one rather surprising truth: there are no exemplary families. Not a single ...

Teach Your Children Well

If you live right, chances are your children will too. That's if you make sure to teach them everything. What you don't teach them, someone else ...

Parent Reform Before School Reform

It's not better teachers, texts, or curricula that our children need most; it's better childhoods, and we will never see lasting school reform ...

Me and My Shadow

My young son had been following me around the house for hours. All my efforts to interest him in playing with his truck or books were unsuccessful. He ...

Talking to God

I was tucking our preschooler in for the night when she asked if she could pray. Delighted, I told her it was a great idea to talk to Jesus. As she began ...

Parents Have It Rough

Jack Moore wrote a story about two teenagers. One teenager was talking to another, "I'm really worried. Dad slaves away at his job so I'll ...

Putting Your Weight Down

On Dudley's seventy-fifth birthday, there was a pilot in his small town who offered to take Dudley for an airplane ride. Dudley accepted. So for about ...