parenting

Toddlers: Teens in the Making

by L.R. Knost March 21, 2012
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Dear Daughter, You entered your teen years with a bang a few years ago, and the explosions have been shattering our home ever since. I’ve begged, threatened, and bribed; cried, shouted, and bargained; but I just can’t find a way to reach you anymore. You constantly say I don’t listen to you, but how can [...]

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A Momma’s Love: Freely Given

by Carissa Robinson February 19, 2012
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I lean my body against the haphazard stack of pillows piled high on my bed, close my eyes, and nestle my precious sleeping babe against my chest. One glorious, cotton-candy cheek rests near my breast, one tiny ear presses into my chest, in sleep listening to the rhythmic thrum of my heart. We breathe as [...]

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Book Review—Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me: Christians and the Spanking Controversy

by Brenda King April 1, 2011
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Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me: Christians and the Spanking Controversy by Samuel Martin ISBN: 0978533909 © 2006 160 pages, nonfiction Like most parents, I sincerely want to do what is best for my child. I stay awake at night thinking and praying about it, and have read countless articles and books on [...]

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Book Review—To Train Up a Child

by Brenda King February 9, 2011
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To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl ISBN: 9781892112002 No Great Joy Ministries, 1994 109 pages, nonfiction *Note: This review contains sensitive and disturbing content. In recent years the book To Train Up a Child by Michael and Debi Pearl of No Great Joy Ministries has risen in popularity, especially among conservative-minded [...]

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What is Grace-Based Discipline? My Journey of Understanding

by PhenomoMom October 15, 2010
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Sometimes I wonder why God is leading me in a certain direction; sometimes it takes years for the answer to be revealed. While praying for over a year that God would bless us with a child, I started researching parenting. I started out reading a popular book at our church that all my friends gushed [...]

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Blessed Gift of Parenthood

by Jan Lutz June 1, 2010
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Blessed gift of parenthood Given by God the Source of good Sent to humankind from heaven Thanks to God for it be given Hear us, Father, as we pray For all parents on this day With Your precious, saving love Guard and keep them from above. Keep them free from sin’s dread stain Help them [...]

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Not to Me

by A Mother May 19, 2010
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When you made me bend over Face down on the bed And hold the position While you used the red paddle Or the oak switch Or the board When repeatedly the sound Of my flesh being struck filled the room And my silence was cause for more blows And my cries of pain were seen [...]

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Good Baby, Bad Baby

by Jodi Nisly Hertzler January 15, 2010
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There is one question that I hate above all others. It makes me so irritated I have to grit my teeth and dig my fingers into my palms to maintain my composure when I hear it. An angry flush rises on my cheeks, and my heart pounds in anger and frustration. It’s a question that [...]

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A Godly Man

by Jan Lutz May 31, 2009
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A godly man I want to be So that my son will always see God’s love shining through me. With His example as my guide Following Him who for me died As my son’s steps follow my stride A humble man I wish to live And thus onto my son to give A picture of [...]

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The Wicked Not-Stepmother

by Anni Welborne November 18, 2007
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Warning: This is a painfully honest article, lived and written through tears. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, because I’m nowhere near innocent. It was a long, weary day. All I had gotten done that day was cleaning up mess after mess after mess. After cleaning up the umpteenth potty accident, [...]

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