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My latest post for enCourage on parenting boys
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Raising Children in a Success Obsessed World
As we finish another school year, praying I will focus on God’s definition of success, and not the world’s. twitter.com/pcacdm/status/1291310561783951360
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Faith-Based Parenting: Restrictive or Compassionate?
In 22 years of teaching in public schools, I’ve seen a lot of change. Technological advances, educational trends, parenting styles, behavioral patterns; a lot has changed. One particular change, a growing movement over the years, is that of atheism or agnosticism. In short, many more parents of this generation have decided to raise their children without religion. My first clue to this societal shift came over ten years ago, when only one student in class of fifteen knew that Christmas was about a birth. In recent years, I have seen it more and more. The reason? From what I have been told by friends of mine who’ve made this decision,…
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A Letter from Your Teen’s Teacher
Independent, productive, brilliant. Yes, these are some of the words to describe the teenage years, but these are not the usual terms. Hormonal, moody, difficult, and quarrelsome? Those are the words I hear more often. My teen years were all of these-wonderful and difficult- and after over 20 years of teaching teenagers, I would like to tell parents a few things from my point of view. Am I an expert? No. My son is only 12, so we are just beginning our journey, but as a high school English teacher, I would like to give some encouragement to parents. After years of reading journal entries and essays written by your…
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Raising Children in a Success Obsessed World
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