Big changes occur when we have a teenager. Parenting becomes more difficult. We dread or ignore the changes. Flowing with the changes brings delight, wonder, love, and joy in the teen years just as they did in childhood. But we have to be brave and willing to allow these changes. Those changes can be frightening […]
Stop Parenting
Today we have a guest blogger, my friend, Shawnda Myers. During our small group she shared the following thoughts about dealing differently with adult children that are still at home. I liked what she said so well, I asked her permission to put her ideas into a blog. “STOP PARENTING” From Shawnda Myers When our […]
Parenting Tip: The “Big Picture” of Life
In the late 90’s I learned about emotional maturity from Dr. Jim Wilder. His organization, Life Model Works, has a detail list of needs and tasks pertinent to each emotional maturity stage of life.* One of the maturity tasks for children towards the end of the Child Stage (ages 4-13) is to learn the “big […]
Helping Young Adults Evaluate Possible Mates
I was going through some old files to prepare for a workshop that is coming up and I found an old paper that I had shared a few years back at a break-out group for young people. It seemed beneficial to share it with my blog-o-sphere. This is just a brief look at how to […]
Moving to Mentoring
Moving to Mentoring. Another great blog from my son, Bob, author of On Ramp, the book to help sons become men. The book On Ramp: Helping Your Son Start His Journey to Manhood provides a plan that fathers can implement for their sons as they move into the teenage years. It’s basically a two-step process that I followed […]
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Someone searched on my blog asking why their toddler takes apart the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I have no way to answer questions that are not in comments, so on the chance they will see a new blog, here is my answer. It seems to me the obvious reason is so they can lick the jelly. […]