We all know that women are pretty much the worst at getting tangled up in heated, personally charged arguments about things (things being pretty much everything pertaining to children). Someone comes along to say that breastfeeding is the way the truth and the life, and people start throwing stink bombs. Someone barges through saying that [...]

Chesterton said somewhere (and if I knew which box the book was in, I’d go find it) that boundaries are what make art possible; breaking some boundaries will not make you free. He goes on to say that if the artist decides in his bold creative way to draw a giraffe with a short neck, [...]

Teaching your children to love the standard is at the very heart of Christian parenting. When Mom wrote about “lowering the standards,” it naturally raised a lot of questions about how you teach little kids to love the standard. How can we teach them to love high standards? How can we help them internalize the [...]

Some time ago I wrote a post about girls and their emotions entitled “The Spirited Rider.” In the aftermath of that post, it became clear that emotions are a real topic of interest! My goal in this post is to share with you a few of the practical ways we try to teach our children [...]