Category: Parenting

  • Favorite Weekend Moments (before I forget)

    Favorite Weekend Moments (before I forget)

    I wish I had remembered my camera for our latest camping adventure. Instead, I have mental snapshots for each time I said, “Oh, I want to remember that flower, that rock, that stream, that person doing that thing.” Unfortunately, those images are already fading from memory. I jotted a few things down in my journal…

  • Hannah turns 12 today!

    With this birthday, I begin embarking on the uncharted “I AM THE PARENT OF A TEEN” waters. I have a sinking feeling that most of what I learned in adolescent developmental theory will be about as helpful as everything I learned about the other stages of child development. Research and observation are one thing, parenting…

  • Book Review: How to Bring Your Child to Christ

    …And Keep Them There: Avoiding the Tragedy of False Conversion by Ray Comfort New life is a mystery. Most women do not know they are pregnant until a test or doctor’s confirmation. Though physicians can provide a detailed step-by-step description of the birthing process, the actual trigger that sets a birth in motion is still…

  • Thoughts on family and church life

    I’m in the middle (and I mean that quite literally: when I opened to my bookmark earlier today, the book lay open flat without my holding either side) of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas. For those of you who’ve read it, I’ve reached the chapter detailing Bonhoeffer’s founding of his seminary at…

  • Al Rescate (To the Rescue)

    We’ve been living our own little episode of “Go, Diego, Go!” here at the Wiggins’ house. You may recall that we have three cats.  Our cats enjoy the usual activities of cats: attacking, playing with, disemboweling anything smallish.  It doesn’t matter if it has two, four, six, or eight legs.  Our cats are going to…