Encouragement for moms

Why Does a Harvard Professor Want to Ban Homeschooling?

The latest issue of Harvard Magazine has me feeling exceptionally grateful, after I finished fuming. Reading through the misconceptions and illogical arguments of Erin O’Donnell’s article, “The Risks of Homeschooling,” I was left with a new appreciation of the premises of homeschooling.  Y’all know I don’t have Harvard Law degree, and you can probably make

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A few things you forgot to tell your mother-in-law on Mother’s Day

A Mother’s Day message for my mother-in-law? I sat down to write one; and I had to wonder why I hadn’t done so years sooner. This Mother’s Day? I’m writing an open letter to my mother-in-law… If you’d rather listen in than read, I just recorded the audio version of this post in the Simple

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Beauty in the Sorrow (verses when your child is sick)

As a parent, we know there will be pain and difficulty in our child’s life that we can’t fix, but there are some encouraging verses that give hope when your child is sick or in pain. I spent many hours shedding puffy-eyed tears while Jordyn suffered through intense pain this week that I can’t take

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Encouraging a Passion for Philanthropy

I’ll admit it right up front–it’s hard. It takes long hours of commitment. Days. Years. No, it really takes a lifetime to encourage a natural bent toward kindness in your child.   Encouraging a passion for philanthropy in your children is not for the weak-at-heart, minimal-time-to-invest parent. But I’ll admit, maybe it was so arduous for

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