“I blew it with my four-year-old yesterday. Her constant whining wears me down.” “I’m pregnant with my third and the hormones are raging!” “My older kids fight non-stop, and the baby is headed into the ‘Terrible-Two’s’!” “I have a stressful job and when I come home, all I see is the mess. It makes me […]

Our homes should be the safest place on earth to raise our children and live as a family.  While the family unit appears to disintegrate more and more each year, there is a simple solution.  As a parent, you can create a loving home atmosphere for your family starting with these 9 principles. Once applied, […]

I would guess that all parents want their children to become each other’s best friends. The question is how do siblings become best friends?   As the mother of 6 children ages 26 through 15 that consider their siblings their best friends I have gone straight to them and asked them how exactly did their brothers […]

Being married to an Executive Coach, means setting yearly goals at the beginning of each year. This year as I began the process, the thought occurred to me that my kids may have goals that they want to achieve. Of course! What better way to raise visionaries, than to help them begin to set goals […]

It feels like it’s 100 degrees at 7:00 am. I’m reminded that even though this late July sun has me sweating the minute I step outside, summer is almost a distant memory. Those long, lazy days of summer are almost behind us as the calendar races towards August; the beginning of school. Ironically, August is […]

It was 9:00am and my stomach was turning. She would be here in a half hour. The baby girl that we had been praying for since the day we were called to adopt. She was almost three months old and was coming from her first foster home to her second. She arrived at 9:30 am. […]

There you are in the grocery store, trying to shop peacefully, when your child erupts in fit of screams and launches into a world-class meltdown. Trying to soothe the savage beast is never easy and you resort to bribery in a last-ditch effort to calm his tiny spirit. Rejecting your peace-offering, his tantrum continues, and […]

As far back as my memories go, Jesus has always been an ever-present figure in my life. I don’t remember the exact day that my family introduced me to Him, but I can’t remember a time without Him. Knowing this, I had no doubt that I wanted to do the same for my child. Being […]

Mommy anger: the one thing I vowed I would never succumb to,. And one day, boom! There it was and I couldn’t stop it. I felt hot all over, like my chest was going to explode & I’m sure the roots of my hair glowed red hot. I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t […]

In 1858 Abraham Lincoln began his most memorable speech with these words: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Lincoln, of course, was addressing a weakness he saw in America at the time. I believe the same weakness, lack of unity, threatens to destroy many families today. If you want a strong family, one that […]

As a parent, I consistently search for fun ways to teach my children about godly character.  It’s also my goal to sneak learning into everyday play so they don’t know they are learning.  I pride myself on being sneaky with my teaching methods! As a veteran teacher,  I know that often history curriculum is filled […]