me, Me, ME
Posted on 17-May-13 16:07 by Carrie Ward | Twitter: @AnEverydayMama
Topics: Relationships with Others, With Your Kids
Just exactly how much ME time do I need before it becomes selfish and self-indulgent?
Blog Topics
Topic: With Your Kids
Is It Time to Re-Think Your Family's Sports Schedule?
Posted on 16-May-13 14:51 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
Shouldn't someone throw the flag here? Isn't it time we notice that sports are pulling Christians out of the pews?
Eek! Whose Children Are These?
Posted on 05-Dec-12 10:43 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
You mean I'm the one who's supposed to teach them how to behave?!
Growing Boys into Warriors
Posted on 15-Nov-12 16:18 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
Are you squeezing the testosterone out of your little warrior?
Halloween: Celebrate or Avoid?
Posted on 25-Oct-12 16:28 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
Can we participate in Halloween without getting sucked in by all the
yucky stuff?
Just One of Those Days
Posted on 16-Jul-12 13:41 by Trillia Newbell | Twitter: @TrilliaNewbell
Topics: With Your Kids
Today was just one of those days. You know, those days when you get up extra early to pack lunches for preschool and jump in the car only for it to break down on the way. One of those days when tempers flare and your kids fight all day long.
When It Comes to the Mommy Wars, I’m Waving the White Flag
Posted on 08-Jun-12 16:25 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
Did you catch a glimpse of the May 21, 2012 TIME Magazine cover? It features a real mom from Los Angeles with her three-year-old son nursing while eyeing the camera with a toddler glare. The magazine dared to ask a question we are all asking ourselves, "Am I mom enough? Do I have what it takes to mother well? And if I fail, what price will need to be paid?"
The Proverbs Project
Posted on 17-Feb-12 12:31 by Carrie Ward | Twitter: @AnEverydayMama
Topics: With Your Kids
We enjoyed our lunch and conversation, paid the check, and headed out to the car. Then it happened. She said these words: "Wouldn't it be neat if some parents taught their children to memorize the entire book of Proverbs before they left home?" I didn't say anything, but what I was thinking was, "Oh yeah, that would be neat . . . for some other parents!"
What A New Study Says About Christian Education
Posted on 07-Oct-11 09:21 by Dannah Gresh
Topics: With Your Kids
This comprehensive study reveals this about students graduating from the home school or Christian school setting . . .
Sunday Morning Chaos
Posted on 06-Oct-11 16:50 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
You realize someone has smeared oatmeal on the only outfit that seemed to fit you this morning. You go back to change and realize there’s a run in your pantyhose . . .
What Eve Can Teach Us about Being a Mom
Posted on 06-Sep-11 13:26 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
If we were handing out mother of the year awards, few of us would think to nominate Eve. But she has much to teach us about being mothers!
Finding Your Child’s Life Verse
Posted on 16-Feb-11 16:10 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
We pray this verse for Eli. We pray this verse with Eli. We’ve painted this verse on the wall in Eli’s room. When he starts reading, this will be a passage I will have him practice reading often. When he is able to memorize Scripture, this verse will be where we start.
Praying the Scriptures for your Children
Posted on 16-Feb-11 16:03 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
I quickly realized that I didn’t have the words to ask God to respond the way I wanted Him too. All I could pray was “don’t let him die!” but that didn’t really capture the mighty work I was asking God to do. So I started praying Scriptures for my son.
Don’t Just Hang in There!
Posted on 20-Jan-11 15:38 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: With Your Kids
Moms, please don’t let these days slip by too quickly. Stop to play.
Stop to sing and rock. Stop to pray with your toddler. Hug the
squabbling siblings and sneak out of the house to have a Sonic date with
your teen!
My Latest Favorite CD
Posted on 21-Jan-11 13:16 by Nancy Leigh DeMoss | Twitter: @NancyDeMoss
Topics: With Your Kids
Every time I hear these rich, peaceful arrangements with all Scripture
lyrics (can’t beat that!), my heart is calmed, encouraged, and
strengthened.
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
Posted on 15-Dec-10 21:52 by Mindy Kroesche
Topics: With Your Kids
The village children
called him Mr. Gloomy.
So begins one of my favorite children's Christmas stories, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey. I've been reading this to my three-year-old for the last several nights and have had to brush the tears from my eyes more than a few times.
You’ve got a little admirer
Posted on 18-Nov-10 14:02 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: With Your Kids
Why Have Kids?
Posted on 05-Nov-10 15:58 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Marriage, With Your Kids
"Why have kids?" That's a question couples are increasingly prone to ask.
October 31 . . . A Matter of Prayer
Posted on 21-Oct-10 12:36 by Mary Ann Lepine
Topics: Impacting your world, With Your Kids
As a child growing up in a Roman Catholic family during the 1960s, we celebrated Halloween. That is to say, on October 31, we cobbled together homemade costumes of sad hobos, friendly ghosts, and fierce pirates so we could run from one house to another shouting “Trick or Treat!” as we gathered lots of candy.
Holly Elliff’s Life . . . Eight Kids Later
Posted on 20-Oct-10 15:10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: When Life's Hard, With Your Kids
If you’d asked 20-year-old Holly Elliff what she was going to do with her life, her answer would’ve been quite different than the way her life actually turned out.
Trusting God with EVERYTHING
Posted on 19-Oct-10 16:02 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
I was worshipping the Lord this morning when I felt a very clear directive in my heart: “Today is the day to take away the binkie.”
Being “all there” for your kids
Posted on 04-Oct-10 17:41 by Jani Ortlund | Twitter: @JaniOrtlund
Topics: With Your Kids
Being a mother is just plain, hard work. At times, it feels like slave labor! Moms can identify with the cartoon of a toddler looking at a wedding album with his daddy and saying, “So that’s the day Mommy came to work for us!”
Mommas Who Leave
Posted on 13-Sep-10 16:32 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: Impacting your world, With Your Kids, Womanhood
I was feeling a little under the weather the other day, so my sweet husband decided to take my boys out for breakfast to give me a break. When the hostess asked how many to seat and my husband replied “just the three of us,” she bent in close and whispered, “Did momma leave?”
The War of Learning Self-Control
Posted on 31-Aug-10 11:17 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
My two year old is a very good boy most of the time, but there are times when he is downright carnal. And if given the opportunity to choose between what’s best for him and what isn’t, he usually picks option b. Sunday was the perfect example . . .
Powerful Women
Posted on 30-Jul-10 14:56 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: Impacting your world, With Your Kids
If you study the history of feminism, much of the rhetoric centers
around women's sense of powerlessness or the perception that they have
less "power" than men. But is that an accurate perception?
Waiting for Children
Posted on 06-Jul-10 14:49 by Mindy Kroesche
Topics: With Your Kids
Parenting in light of God’s grace to you
Posted on 07-Jun-10 16:29 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: With Your Kids
Sarah Newell is a young mom who recently realized that her method of discipline was putting her two-year-old daughter under guilt. Lots has changed, and Sarah now considers discipline a joy!
Raising Children of Radical Faith
Posted on 15-Jun-10 18:06 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: With Your Kids
As a teen determined to make a difference, I wanted to live all out for Christ, whether that meant heading to a third world country to spread the gospel or immersing myself in academic theological training. One aspect of “making a difference” really didn’t hit my radar screen, though . . .
Shedding some Light on Twilight
Posted on 29-Jun-10 12:45 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
If Bella were my daughter, I’d warn her loudly and clearly about falling for a counterfeit version of true romance. In the real world, the Bellas who fall for the Edwards usually don’t live happily ever after. In the real world, twilight turns to night.
The Not-So-Golden Anniversary of the Pill
Posted on 18-May-10 13:20 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Womanhood, With Your Kids
The pill was not a benign medical advance. It was introduced to advance a
particular worldview and philosophy. And women, en masse, have
swallowed it.
Erin on “Voices”: A Momma After God’s Own Heart
Posted on 06-May-10 12:13 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
Motherhood gives us feelings of fuzzy blankets and baby rattles and toys
to line the crib. But motherhood is actually one of God’s refining
fires. The reality of motherhood is that it’s a place to learn
surrender, letting go, trusting, and believing that God is God.
Has Life Stolen Your Dance?
Posted on 28-Apr-10 13:11 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: Relationships with Others, With Your Kids
Not only is this birthday a reminder that I’m no spring chicken, it also
has me wondering where the dancing has gone. Life has a way of taking
the dance right out of our hearts. Age seems to inevitably usher stress,
sadness, fear, and anxiety into our lives and those carefree days of
baby bouncing fade quickly away.
Tiny Clothes
Posted on 20-Apr-10 10:38 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids
All mothers know the significance of tiny clothes. They are precious reminders of how small our babies once were. They smell like new life and remind us of rocking chairs, first smiles, and 3 a.m. feedings.
When All Else Fails . . . Throw Flour
Posted on 13-Apr-10 17:12 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: Homefront, With Your Kids
I’d been having a really bad day. You know, the kind of day where everything that possibly can go wrong, does. My toddler had thrown one too many fits, my baby needed a little too much of my attention, lunch was burning on the stove, and my house looked like a toy bomb had gone off . . .
Light in the Darkness
Posted on 21-Dec-09 16:08 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: Homefront, With Your Kids
The miscarriage came in the early morning hours the day after the doctor’s visit. A womb emptied its treasure far too early, a daughter delved into pain deeper than she’s ever known, and questions fill the empty spaces.
Training the troops in the mall
Posted on 27-Oct-09 11:34 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: With Your Kids
I was interrupted by the mall security guard tapping me on the shoulder. “Excuse me, Ma’am. You’re going to have to lower your voice . . ."
Little people grow up way too fast!
Posted on 13-Oct-09 18:39 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: With Your Kids
Today's post is for those young moms who've had a really long day of laundry and dirty diapers, one too many spills, and no breaks from the world of "toddlerhood" for weeks!
Managing Multi-Media
Posted on 21-Sep-09 11:32 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
Managing the influence of multi-media in your child’s life is one of the biggest parenting challenges of our day. Here are just a few suggestions . . .
Kari's epiphany
Posted on 12-Oct-09 17:22 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: With Your Kids, True Woman Sightings
We met Kari at the True Woman ’08 Conference where she realized she’d been resenting her precious children. Learn more about her epiphany in this short video clip.
We read the Bible . . . you can too!
Posted on 13-Oct-09 13:26 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: With Your Kids, Relationship with God
"Suddenly an idea hit. I had two goals: I wanted to read the Bible, and I wanted my children to know God’s Word. Why not do both at the same time? Why not read the entire Bible together?"
Help! Mommydom leaves me no time for God
Posted on 13-Oct-09 14:53 by Holly Elliff | Twitter: @TSCMomlink
Topics: With Your Kids, Relationship with God
Seven practical tips on creating space to hear from the Lord during the hectic years as a mom . . .
Pray with your eyes open
Posted on 21-Sep-09 11:38 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: With Your Kids, Relationship with God
I want to share one of the prayers that I prayed from time to time when I sensed that something was amiss in my child’s life.
Growing your heart by giving it away
Posted on 02-Oct-09 15:53 by Holly Elliff | Twitter: @TSCMomlink
Topics: With Your Kids
We spend years trusting God for the ability to accomplish feeding, grooming, clothing, talking, bandaging, correcting, praying, instructing, laughing, crying, playing, applauding, hugging, loving . . . and then we trust God for the ability to let go.
Who are these kids and why are they calling me "MOM"?
Posted on 02-Oct-09 12:05 by Holly Elliff | Twitter: @TSCMomlink
Topics: Womanhood, With Your Kids
Do you ever have a day when it seems that someone yells “mom” every five minutes?
Special Weekend Coverage: The Blessing
Posted on 18-Apr-09 16:45 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
World, watch out. 1,200 courageous princess warriors are now exiting the building!
Special Weekend Coverage: Seven Practical Tips for Moms and Mentors
Posted on 18-Apr-09 14:46 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
When we’re too busy to take our daughters to the Word, we need to reorder our personal world.
Special Weekend Coverage: A Mousetrap Maze & Lie Obliterators
Posted on 18-Apr-09 13:48 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
This conference is sooo cool! I’ll fill you in on our morning while the girls and mentors fill their stomachs with Chick Fillet sandwiches.
Special Weekend Coverage: Behind the Scenes with Marlae Gritter
Posted on 18-Apr-09 09:03 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
"If I could pray one thing for tweens, it would be that at their age, they can grasp how much Jesus loves them. If they really can grasp that and have that God-confidence . . . man, it will be life-changing!"
Special Weekend Coverage: The Day Before
Posted on 17-Apr-09 22:27 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
Every morning, Maryann wakes up and thanks God for the cross. It’s the centerpiece of her life. Maryann was raised in a Christian family. However, in high school she got absorbed into the drug and party culture, and found out she was pregnant at the age of 17. She had an abortion, which she kept a secret for 15 years, before specifically confessing her sin.
Special Weekend Coverage: Pure In Heart Conference
Posted on 17-Apr-09 09:19 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Sexuality, With Your Kids
This is the kind of thing I wish had existed when I was a tween!
Delighting In Your Children (Day 27 of the True Woman Make-Over)
Posted on 30-Oct-08 12:43 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: 30-Day Makeover, With Your Kids
Don’t lose the joys that you could have in the present, and the opportunities God is giving you today, by being impatient for the future!
