As we saw several weeks ago, understanding our own attachment styles can help us be better parents or caregivers to our children. But identifying our own attachment styles is only half the battle—we also need to know how children reveal their attachment styles to us....
As we courageously choose to look to our heavenly Father, we can heal from the past and love the people in our present and future well. So, keep reading, keep learning, and keep walking toward restoration. Healing and rebuilding are coming.
Mentally trace your steps through the day and carefully construct mechanisms that give you margin to connect with yourself as you really are, with your God as He really is, and with the people around you God has placed to help you notice His presence and goodness in your life.
I mean, really? Am I a moron? Or just so desperate by the end of May for some R&R that I really think summer will be a restful season even when all four kids are home and need help every step of the way to be semi-productive, non-eye-rolling human beings?!
A few weeks ago, a friend's daughter turned 13, and she asked a few women, including myself, to write letters to her daughter about how to navigate the teenage years. Because let's be honest about something here - being a teenager in today's world is HARD. And being...
Moms sacrifice so much to make us the people we are today. It's easy for us to remember their role in our stories, but sometimes we forget (I know at least I do) to remember our moms' stories - where they have come from and what they have had to overcome. I wanted to...
I had a plan. My plan looked something like this: I was going to send all four of my girls to camp the exact same week so that I could be at home by myself for one whole week. I've been looking forward to this plan for months. I've been dreaming about it in my really...
Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on unique ability. (Click HERE to read the post.) To recap the post, the definition of your unique ability is this: Your unique ability can be defined as the thing that nobody else can do but you. It's the thing that God created...
At the start of every school year, I need to hear the reminders in this post as much for myself as I do for my children. If you read this post last year, consider reading it again and passing it along to someone who might need to hear these words during this season...
Yesterday's post was about getting Boys In the Word of God. As a mother of two teenage boys, my good friend Leigh Kohler spoke from her heart about the importance of the Word of God in discipling boys as they become men and the tools and resources she and her husband,...