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Break the Cycle: Learn Positive Discipline with Kids, Rather than Punitive Control

We know that parenting is the biggest responsibility we will ever have. But we've been told such different things about the nature of that responsibility. If you grew up in an evangelical church, chances are you were told that a parent's job is to teach them to obey,...
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On Spanking: When You Think You’re Following the Bible, but You’re Really Following Your Own Interpretation

It's easy to use the "we're just following the Bible!" trumpcard when debating something, and spanking proves an excellent example of how this can go awry. We've been talking about spanking as a method of discipline for a few weeks now, and two weeks ago we did a...
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Spanking Fixed It For You: It’s Okay to Change Your Mind about Spanking

I never spanked my kids. Well, there's a funny story about Katie, but I'll leave that for another time.  What I did do, though, was write a column in my weekly paper about twenty years ago bemoaning the fact that the Children's Aid Society was taking children away...
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Your Kids May Have Attachment Issues; That Doesn’t Mean It’s Your Fault

When my daughter Rebecca was 19 months old, her baby brother died. He was only a month old. We learned when I was about 5 months pregnant about his heart condition, and that things would be very touch and go. We spent the last four months of the pregnancy petrified of...
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What My Grandson Taught Me about How God Sees Us

What My Grandson Taught Me about How God Sees Us

by | Dec 14, 2022

Every now and then my grandkids give me a picture of God’s love for us. Or rather, their parents do. I don’t share about my grandkids very often, but last week, on a private Instagram page, Rebecca posted a series of pictures of my 3-year-old grandson Alex and his dad...

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