When having a conversation with some friends the other day, we were talking about how most parents desire that their kids grow up to be “good people”. Of course there’s nothing wrong with hoping for this, and I couldn’t put my finger on it at the time, but I knew that just “being good people” is not what I want for our kids. For some reason the conversation made me feel unsettled inside. What kind of Mom am I to not want our kids to be GOOD?
When a young friend emailed recently requesting advice for a good marriage, I hoped you might be willing to add your own advice to the mix. Please share in the comments!
Recently a reader asked for advice on how to raise kids to be committed Christians. For Kent and I, this is our number one goal as parents, to raise up kids who love Jesus so they can know Him and be used by Him to help others in this world, and so we can all be together in the next. I just don’t see how anything else matches this goal when you think of eternity, but wow, it’s not easy, and I sure don’t have the magic formula. I’ve got some ideas though…
My Mom was always there for all five of us kids, no matter what. She taught us many lifelong lessons about being good to others. And Kent’s Mom is not your typical Mother-in-law…
“I don’t know why, you’d want a guy, who only cares what he sees with his eyes.” I showed this to our younger kids and want to help them ‘get’ this now, before the world teaches them differently…
To have what some might think is the ultimate freedom, the radical autonomy to be without any duty or obligation to others, is actually a taste of Hell.
Posts don’t go up here very often these days. Between my Kitchen Kop blog and homeschooling, there’s just not time for much more. But one thing I always do is keep up on my friend, Jen’s blog. It was there that I found another gem that I had to share. And since it’s not health or nutrition related, […]
Surviving Infidelity — is it Possible? Here’s a blog I came across recently about surviving infidelity — it’s a raw, but beautiful, story…
I hope you’ll go see the movie, Courageous, at the theaters this weekend. Why this weekend? Did you know that the more people who see a movie the first weekend it’s out, the more widely distributed and more successful it will be? And we all know that we need more movies to teach us, and […]
Here’s what we need to teach our children about real love, via my friend Amy from Abby Johnson’s Facebook page…