Category: Parenting

  • Seasons

    I heard someone say once ‘don’t waste the season you are in’. It got me thinking what season am I even in? When you look at your life we go through many seasons. Childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, marriage, parenting, empty nesting, and retirement. For me, I am currently in the season of parenting. What a…

  • Family Member or Housemate

    For the past couple months our almost 19 year-old has been pushing boundaries. My husband and I have had many conversations lately about the best course of action. Yesterday things had boiled over to where we had to deliver an ultimatum. We asked our child to leave the house while they were in a fit…

  • Resentment

    Resentment is like a cancer! The majority of us know how cancer goes. It’s a disease that starts out microscopically, as a single-mutated cell. Then the cells begin dividing and multiplying. It grows steadily. Until it consumes a body leading to death. I believe resentment to be very similar. Let me try to explain it…

  • Backlash

    The past couple months have been a strain to say the least when it comes to parenting. One child on the way to making better decisions from their almost year long of putting themselves on a bad path. The other child crashing… What’s a parent to do? It’s like a flip flop, one child to…

  • “18”

    Oh what an age… when I was growing up I knew my place in the house even at the 18 year old age. I knew to be home at a certain time. I knew to be respectful to my parents. I knew exactly what was excepted of me while I still lived at home as…

  • Liar Liar

    At what age would you say as a parent you began experiencing lying from your child? 2-3 years old? 6-8 years old? We didn’t get to experience lying until our children were in their teens, since that is the age we adopted them. Even then they didn’t choose to start lying with us until a…

  • Self-Care

    Self-care… What do you think of when you hear those words? Lots of people think of these words as a sign of weakness. I believed this myself. Is it truly a weakness though to take care of yourself? This past year has been the hardest of my life. We are still a long way from…

  • Reacting vs Responding

    Last spring some things had come up in our parenting we didn’t have a clear picture on how to handle. So I reached out to a dear friend who had some older children who went through some similar things. As I spilled the story through tears, anger, and concern, they told me two very important…

  • What does your Army look like

    Over the past couple weeks these words keep coming to me, what does your army look like? Early on in parenting I would get so crazy responsive emotionally. As I have grown, my first response now is to start praying. Stop the freak out moment and start talking to the One who knows everything. This…

  • Contentment

    When you invite a couple teenagers to come be apart of your family through adoption, a lot of baggage will come too. Was our plan to adopt teens? Well we said we would on the paperwork we filled out for the state. Did we actually expect to get teens, no. A lot of things just…