Category: Parenting

  • Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

    Feed readers may need to click to my blog to see the video. It’s about 20 minutes long, but worth your time to listen.

  • Subduing or Training?

    I’m reading Womanly Dominion by Mark Chanski, per the suggestion of Carolyn Mahaney. I recently read through chapter 2, in which Chanski theologically unpacks woman’s creation mandate to subdue and rule the earth. …And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have…

  • Upcoming Parenting Series on Shepherd Press Blog

    If you aren’t already a subscriber to Shepherd Press’ blog, you may want to go ahead and do that now. The posts are always excellent and thoughtful, but I’m mentioning this now because Jay Younts is beginning a series on what Tedd Tripp calls “four important truths…parents should weave into their parenting.” From Shepherd Press…

  • Calculating the hours

    Creating a schedule is kind of overwhelming me right now. I have 168 hours to work with in one week. I feel like I need my own cap and trade time scheme or Hermione’s time-turner. Here are the steps I took to create my schedule:Step 1: Begin with the end in mind.I start by considering…

  • The Stowaway

    As Hannah dressed to sing at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival, she found a small animal hiding in one of her performance shoes. She showed it to her chaperon, who (not recognizing what kind of animal it was) assumed it was Hannah’s pet from home. “What’s its name?” she asked. Hannah, not quite understanding why her…