The good news is that I had a wonderful week away last week with my family (no cell phone, no e.mail). The not-so-good news is that I returned to several hundred e.mails yesterday.
One of them was quite encouraging. Brett …
We seem to be living in the largest generation gap since the 1960s, at least according to a new report by the Pew Research Center. I haven’t been able to get a copy of the actual report yet, but in …
My friend, Walt Mueller, has just authored a book entitled The Space Between: A Parent’s Guide to Teenage Development
Last week our two oldest kids started summer school. We had been told by letter and phone call that Krista, our six year-old, was going to be in a particular class. To our delight, it was the same class as …
As someone who cares about kids and a parent, I can’t stop thinking about this blog from Jim Wallis from Sojourners entitled “Your Calendar is a Moral Document”.
I hope it stretches and inspires you as it has me.…
Yesterday Mark Oestreicher from Youth Specialties posted a blog saying that among other things, he was ending his blog, closing his Facebook account, and cutting back on travel. The reason? He wanted to give more time to his family and …
In the Powell family, we’re on a hiatus from kid sports. Soccer and basketball are done and we’re taking a break. Every night we’ve been home this week, we’ve been outside, riding bikes. Usually our neighbors and their kids join …
Have our youth ministry practices and philosophies sold kids and families short by focusing on a too-narrow definition of “family”? Pulling from family ministry guru Diana Garland’s work, Fraze challenges us with some helpful reframing of our understanding of family in Christ and its implications for youth work.
My kids are 8, 6, and 2 so I am FAR from a veteran of the parent schedule juggling act. But already, especially with my two oldest kids, it’s getting harder and harder to balance their schedules, which now include …
While adolescence has always been a time of physical (and all kinds of other) changes, the way teenage girls experience those changes is now, in fact, changing.
