Preparing Your Kids for Air Travel

Have you ever traveled by plane, frustrated by someone’s loud children? Or perhaps you’ve been the parent stressed out with the rambunctious ones? Recently I took a trip across the USA to visit one of my adult children. From the back of the plane we all heard: Whining, demanding, fighting, name calling “Shhhhhh!” loudly, over the noise of…

Parenting to the Heart

For years, I’ve been opening my home once a month to teach women. Most often the topic is on some aspect of “parenting to the heart” of our children. “Parenting to the heart” means focusing on the heart not the outward appearance. Parenting to the heart involves dealing with the root of the sin in…

My Broken Hearted Child

(Shared with permission…to encourage parents to “Stop the World.”) My daughter was about twelve when it happened…again. One of her closest friends was moving away. I remember this day well. She and her sister and I were driving to a homeschool field trip, running a little late…being that I am the reigning U-Turn Champ, and all. (Does anyone else suffer…