Many modern parents feel they don’t have too much to teach their kids. I, for one, couldn’t help mine with calculus or programming. In fact, the world of technology was changing so fast that they were often teaching me. It is enough to cause many parents to step back and rely on “experts” to do [read more] …
Family Life
Wrestling with Context
There is little in life that can be properly understood without context. Whether our first grader is learning to figure out the meaning of words based on what else is in the paragraph or our senior is grappling with a Shakespearian passage, they must look at what else is given to make sense of the [read more] …
New Year’s Relinquishment
It happens every year about this time. People start talking about resolutions for the New Year. They list the things they need to add to their life: more exercise, a new diet, exciting activities, daily journaling, starting the house addition, etc. Many look at life and feel it is not enough. For some odd reason, [read more] …
The Gift of Peacefulness
It is hard to believe that we are already facing the end of the fall semester. Didn’t it just start yesterday? The speed at which life passes can leave us all a little breathless. One minute we are teaching our children to walk and talk, the next we are having adult conversations with them as [read more] …
It Starts at Home
“Everybody wants to save the earth. Nobody wants to help mom do the dishes” P.J. O’Rourke I believe most parents dream of their children doing great things. It is such a delight to see the miracle of development unfold before our eyes throughout childhood. They often surprise us with clear insight that is more mature than [read more] …