Pearls from the Girls
How to know your amazing idea is part of God’s plan for your life.
May 2014
5 things NOT to say to your childless friend
For some, Mother’s Day is one of the hardest days of the year. There was a time when that was true for me.
Wife and Mother
You know, so often we look at men and there’s something about their physical size and brute strength, their ability to go out and crash through problems. It’s easy to make the mistake and think that it’s the man who’s the strongest force in marriage and in a family. Well maybe that’s true. But you …
It’s All in Your Mind
I love to read! I’ll read just about anything. Books, newspapers, magazines, junk mail. I read about how many oranges they squeezed into my bottle of OJ. I read graffiti, the sides of buses, fine print, advertisements, subtitles, and comics. My best friend loves to dance. My dad likes to talk to people. My mum …
My Son’s Anger Frightens Me – Part 2
Parents and teenagers live in different worlds and their challenge is finding common ground. Common ground is a place where the arguing stops, even if only for a moment. Finding common ground can be as simple as a well-timed look, an in-house joke, a quick hug, a catch up about sport or a trip to the shops via a milkshake bar. Finding common ground confirms, “I can still find something I like about you even when you are totally annoying me!”
Understand Development
Sometimes our expectations for our children can be a little high. When we don’t understand their development we can become frustrated at them for doing what is entirely normal. For example, did you know on average, children don’t regulate their emotions competently until around 7 or 8 years old? So getting cranky at your 5 …
What I Really Want for Mother’s Day
I didn’t write out a gift wish list or drop (m)any hints (I may have mentioned something about a tea set) because all I’d really like this Mother’s Day is…
Should Teachers Give Out Parenting Advice?
Someone once said to me talking to a mother is like witnessing multi-tasking on steroids…
How to have a positive impact on your kids
Being a parent is, I think, absolutely one of the most challenging things we can ever do. And in part that’s because there is always, always a generation gap between parents and their children. We always end up parenting in a world that’s profoundly different to the one in which we grew up. So how …