*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on the Business Insider. Don’t be fooled by people who say parents are out of touch with their kids’ lives. The truth is, they may be more enmeshed in the goings-on of their children than parents have been in decade — and that may not be a…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on the Daily Mail. Family fun often means new activities and destinations but a new study suggests leisure time spent at home in familiar pastimes may be a better route to happiness. “That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information, such as taking…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on the Daily Mail. Children raised by divorced parents are more likely than children whose parents are married to be non-religious as adults, according to a new study. With a rise in religiously unaffiliated Americans over the years, a survey suggests that family stability or…
People tell me all the time how much my two boys looks like. They are both blonde with blue eyes, but other than that, they couldn’t look more different—to me. Asher, my oldest, has my jawline and smile, but his father’s eyes and brow. Pace, my youngest, has my eyes and nose, his dad’s…
Splink 1: Students began new lessons on the life of Moses and Israel’s deliverance from slavery. Drag out the baby pictures and talk about each child’s birth. (A few questions to jog your memory: How did you feel when they were born? How fast did you drive getting to the hospital? What…
When my daughter was three years old, she hated going to her Wednesday night class at our church. I didn’t blame her; our church had a midweek program for girls that was like Girl Scouts with all the fun sucked out. The challenge was that I was the NextGen Pastor, so the midweek girls…
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My feet bounced under my chair, my mind raced, and my jaw hurt from chewing my lip. I was nervous and anxious waiting for test results…but not my own. The results were from a test my son, Dylan, took that would reveal whether or not he had learning disabilities. After years of struggling in…
Last week, we celebrated my son’s 11th birthday.When my children were toddlers and preschoolers, I discovered the very real truth that it’s easier to celebrate one child’s birthday when all the children have something to do. And that was the catalyst for the Birthday Brother Tradition, whereupon the one with the unbirthday gets to…
Splink 1: Pretzel Prayers Share a simple object lesson about prayer using a pretzel. Make pretzels together or use purchased ones. (For this object lesson, make or choose the knots/twisted ones.) Although no one is exactly sure when and where pretzels were first made, there is a story that long ago there was…