parenting

Today I am happy to bring you a guest post by Teri Lynne Underwood. I have had the privilege to get to know Teri through the world of Twitter and the blogosphere. I trust you will be blessed by her post. To Intervene or Not to Intervene … That is the Question! My girl is…

I am beginning a new series called Right Thinking Wrong Thinking. Every Thursday I will post this series and I will address some right and wrong ways of thinking and how they affect our hearts and our actions. Here we go: Your heart is pumping and you feel like jumping out of your skin. “Take…

Last week was Spring Break. I loved it. I loved sleeping in (sort of you know kids don’t really ever sleep in), I enjoyed having friends over (tremendously), and I got to see my family (haven’t seen them since Thanksgiving). Oh, but my body prefers routine. I was unable or unwilling to get in bed…

Potty training time. I haven’t met anyone yet who says they love to potty train. I am in that boat. Yet at some point the child must learn. Wednesday I gave a talk and had a babysitter come to watch my little potty training man. I gave her the run down on how the potty…

“‘cchaeus, mommy I wuv dat song,” he lisps as he stands unmoving in the middle of the hallway of his school. “You sing it mommy pwease,” his eyes dance as he smiles and nods at me. In my head I had a check-list of all the things we needed to do before picking up his…