Trending Today on Twitter – 3/8/19 1. #InternationalWomensDay 2. #OurFirstLoveYoongi 3. #FreeCodeFridayContest 4. Buffalo 5. #BalanceforBetter 6. #IWD19 7. Dan Jenkins 8. Splashdown 9. Ken Starr 10. Min Yoongi Source: Twitter Trending Today on Google – 3/8/19 1. Australia vs India 2. Juice WRLD 3. Thunder vs Trail Blazers 4. Lennos Lewis 5. Olga Ladyzhenskaya…
This past week, a friend of mine shared a Facebook memory picture of her son. He passed two years ago due to complications of muscular dystrophy. He was in his early 30s but was thirteen years old the last time I saw him and my friend. We were living in Missouri at that time, and…
Last week I heard a grandfather ask these questions to a group of other grandparents: “When you were a teenager, did you know anyone who took their own life? When you were a teenager did you know anyone who talked about taking their own life?” The only answer uttered by everyone in the room was…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on PsychCentral. The findings of a new U.K. study challenge the popular view that music enhances creativity, and suggests it may in fact have the opposite effect. This proved to be the case even when the music boosted the listener’s mood. Psychologists from the University of…
One of the things about parenting a child or young person with additional needs is that life is never predictable. Just when you think that everything is going along quite well, out of nowhere something will happen that turns everything upside down and breaks it apart again. That this might happen on a fairly regular…
Chasing the Wind Run a relay to see who the first person can be to get their balloon from point A to point B. Line up everyone at point A and give each one a balloon. (Let them start to stretch it so it will be easier to blow up.) At the signal to go,…
Recently I sat with a group of parents concerned. . . and rightly so. . . about the challenges they face in communicating the biblical narrative to their children and teens when the cultural narrative is so loud, so pervasive, and so convincing. The questioning attitude of a teenage child who has been raised and…
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As I stood in my kitchen sipping coffee, I realized with a lurch in my stomach that I still hadn’t written anything this month for the blog. In my head I heard the voice that often likes to taunt me, “You’ve got to write, you’ve got to pack for your trip, you’ve got to clean…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on Pew Research Center. Teens today are spending their time differently than they did a decade ago. They’re devoting more time to sleep and homework, and less time to paid work and socializing. But what has not changed are the differences between teen boys and girls…