A gentle response defuses anger, but a sharp tongue kindles a temper-fire. Proverbs 15:1, The Message We want to stop yelling at our...

Understand that peer pressure is all about being accepted in a group. When you realize that your child is trying to find their place in...

Psalm 127:3 is one of my favorite verses of scripture because it speaks of the value of a child. Children are a gift and a reward...

The memories that your children are making now will be of the everyday moments like breakfast or bedtime. The big events are remembered,...

Guilt is a very poor long term motivator, and a faulty decision making tool. Finding a balance between the nagging fear that we're...

Throughout our lifetimes we all wear either an apron or a bib and it is during early adolescence that our children become able to choose...

Speak gently, give praise, and say yes whenever you can...Find the patience, make the time, play with toys... Look for what your children...

...it has become more and more apparent to me as the years have gone by that there is a love so special and rare that only some of us are...

In our family, we love to cook. Not coincidentally, we also love to eat. Stemming, we think, from our late father, my brothers, husband,...

My head was swimming. "Pray for your son's wife." God repeated. He sounded more insistent. I knew then and I know now that this was the...

When we experience shalom in our hearts there are no chipped or missing pieces. We are healed and whole in a way that we can be through...

Love lavishly, honor deeply, give joyfully, help humbly, encourage sincerely. It is through this that the year 2020 and all subsequent...

Each moment that we choose to hear God over the din of the world, we are choosing to expand our faith...this is divine interruption. I...

Hidden within the beauty of Advent is the substance of hope; once I understood the full meaning of this season my faith journey began to...

Waiting. It is so difficult. We wait in line, wait for a table at our favorite restaurant,we wait at traffic lights, we wait for our...

Far from being unpleasant, this practice brings to us a beautiful sense of closeness to God...repent. "For the kind of sorrow God wants...

Jesus, Son of the only wise God, did something better. He set healthy boundaries for Himself. He healed and cared for others but He also...

In our traditions and our customs we are saying "This is who we are. This is what we believe. These are the ones we love." In our Harbor...

Imagination and Curiosity are the twin children of every great mind. Cultivate these in your children, and you will give them the gifts...

As a Christian educator, I have often been asked by parents how is the best way to pass faith along to the children. My response is this:...