I couldn’t say this better than one mommy from my church mommy group: “I think it’s a rich blessing to be a part of a social group where children are both treasured and a normal, expected part of events.” She gave the example of taking her children along to sewing circle and having the older […]
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While togetherness is the thing that first comes to mind when I think of what I want to give my child, I think for Ivan it may be independence. At least I know he’s commented more than once that he wants Annalise to learn to think and do for herself. When Ivan and I talk
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Often, from mainstream culture, I hear references to adolescents and teens who “hate” their parents or don’t want to be seen with them. Then I think of how it was in my family growing up. We experienced none of the antagonistic “You-have-your-life-I-have-mine” attitude that seems to be a sort of normal in contemporary parent-teen relationships.
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A couple of months ago, I received the following letter (edited slightly) from a blog reader. It was titled, “Would love to hear about parenting in the Plain Mennonite community” and reads in part: I have overlapped significantly with the Plain Mennonite communities through farm work and church experiences back in Pennsylvania and sometimes wish
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Ah….October. One of my favorite months of the year. It holds crisp, clear air, sky so blue you could punch it, leaves whose colors soak into your arteries, and a rich scent of dying things–which is in a paradoxical way a renewing of life. October also holds my birthday, which turned out to be really
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