GraceLaced has a great post for all of us: Ten Things to Remember When Your Child is Disobedient They’re all great, but my favorite is the final one:   “Your child is a person, not a project.”  

I just received word from Westminster Bookstore that my pre-ordered copy of Tim Challies’ new book, The Next Story: Life and Faith after the Digital Explosion is on its way and I can’t wait to read  it. In the interim, this interview by Paula Hendricks has sure given me lots to chew on (as I set my laptop DOWN … 😉 ): Do You Own Technology or Does it Own You?  

I was still feeling as though I had been run over by a Mack truck, but I went to co-op anyway. I was SO longing to see our friends and I really missed our little faux-geography class. Plus, I get to do Resurrection Eggs with the kids and sing “Christ the Lord is Risen Today” for our three Easter co-ops, and I really love that. I especially enjoy seeing the children GROW as we discuss “Passion Week.” Oh! Their eyes were huge as they realized that Jesus’ friends fell asleep (and then fell asleep AGAIN) at his greatest hour of need. (So, by WHOM was Jesus betrayed and abandoned? Just…

I thoroughly enjoyed a fascinating fifteen minutes of learning when Carolyn McCulley posted this TED video from a scientist and jazz musician who puts improv artists in a functional MRI and studies how the brain acts during creative tasks: It was particularly timely for me because: 1. I had just reviewed The Scientific Method at co-op this week with my “little kids” (ages 7 to 10) and my pre-teens and teens—and discussed the epistemological limits of the scientific method with them. So the concepts of what is knowable and how we know what we know and how we study what we know were all heavy on my mind this week.…

This post is a beautiful reminder of why I respect (and enjoy!) Pastor Anyabwile so very much: Encouragement for Mothers Whose Husbands Don’t Attend Church Such humility. Such a high view of women and such a deep appreciation for how God made us to be women, not men. What a mind at work! What a churchman. Most of all—what a Christ-centered, Christ-believing, Christ-proclaiming pastor.   I just love Pastor Anyabwile and I’m grateful for his ministry, not only to his church in the Caymans but to us all through his writing, blogging, and speaking ministry too.  

Although specifically directed to young men, these “Five Dangers” listed by J.C. Ryle seem to me to apply to both young men and women. I just printed off five copies—one to review with Sophia and post in her schoolroom, and the other to share with the four young people in my Geography class at our homeschooling co-op. (As a quick aside, I have to say that my time in our little Geography class is quickly becoming one of the highlights of my week. Who would have thought that I would so enjoy spending time with teenagers? Especially since I know next to nothing about geography! (A fact I eagerly and…

Thanks to my FaceBook Friend, Rebecca S., I learned that the Focus on the Family broadcast for today has to do with children and p*rnography, so I clicked over to their website to check things out. And then I found this excellent series of articles that I encourage you to read too: Healthy Childhood S*xual Development It was particularly helpful to me because I often downplay or forget entirely just how great an impact my early childhood had on my teen and young adult years. The author’s three reminders towards the end of the first article really struck me: “S*xual development is designed to occur over time without injury or…

I was blessed, and saddened, when Sophia (age 6) asked to talk with me last night about something that had been troubling her. It had to do with images in her head about people kissing “in a husband-wife way.” Oh! I was so grateful that she talks so openly with me about hard topics. But doubly-oh! I was sad that, even though we have been so careful about exposing our children to influences in our hyper-erotic society, apparently something had gotten into her precious little mind. So we talked and prayed together. One of the things I asked her was whether she knew from where she had seen or learned…

This is very interesting to me: Training Our Children to Use Technology for God’s Glory I  can’t commend or endorse it yet because I haven’t read/watched it. But I am interested …  

Even at age six, Sophia is already learning Internet safety. (In age-appropriate lessons of course.) And I am already praying for both Sophia and Ella (and their future husbands too!)—specifically that they will never be exposed to s*xually explicit materials online or in print. Ever. But especially at a young age. As someone who was so exposed, I can personally attest to the fact that, yes, God is gracious to help with horrible images and memories. BUT. There is an effect and it is one to be carefully, prayerfully, intentionally, strategically AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. Period. Randy Alcorn is right:   Please. Take steps now. Be wise. Help your children…