It’s too idealistic, they argue. After all, lots of marriages end in divorce; lots of people have sex outside of marriage; and lots of great kids grow up without both biological parents. So why is there such a fight to maintain the traditional view and understanding of marriage? Consider the tree. We could define a tree […]
Tag: Parenting
Face-time beats screen-time every time.
There’s something powerful about raw, unfiltered, unmediated face-to-face interaction that’s just better than… well… everything else. Now, I’m not totally anti-social-media, or against all television viewing or computer use. In fact, a quick survey will show that even in my house there is a screen-to-human ratio of 2.2 to 1. But the “social” interaction we […]
Skip the museum. Go shopping.
The museum deals in the primary theoretical and historical. But the grocery store, and the garage, and the kitchen table… they deal primarily in the practical, real-life sorts of things that every kid (and many adults) needs to learn.
A quality (free) education.
Our culture says we learn the really important things by taking classes at schools that we pay for. I’m not sold. Instead, I’m now looking for opportunities for my kids to have the same kinds of hand-on learning I got as a teenager.
Day 4: Pray for boldness, and assure them
Our kids are longing to take risks and to stand out. But for too long we have struggled to minimize their risks, and cause our children to fit in.