What Do Your Children Need this Summer – It May Not Be What You Think! Summer is here – or almost here, depending on where you live. How are you feeling? Happy? Relaxed? Excited? Stressed? Nervous? Depending on the age of your children and your work and family situation, you [continue reading]
2 Quick and Healthy Summer Meals
2 Quick and Healthy Summer Meals – How to Save Time and Eat Well this Summer If you’re a busy wife and mom who’s trying to serve healthy meals to her family, you’ve undoubtedly run into this problem – eating well takes more time! Which means that on many evenings, [continue reading]
How to Feel Sexy this Summer (and Why It’s Worth the Effort!)
Do You Feel Sexy? No? Me either. One reason you may struggle with sex and intimacy in your marriage is that you just don’t feel sexy. You may have felt sexy at one time (or maybe not), but somewhere between work and lack of sleep and homework and soccer practice, [continue reading]
10 Ways to Relax and Enjoy Your Summer Vacation
A summer vacation is the perfect time for busy wives and moms to relax and rejuvenate. But a vacation can wear you out too, especially if it’s filled with non-stop activities, lots of kid “stuff,” and little or no time to relax and unwind. When that happens, the chances that [continue reading]
Does the Christian ‘Purity’ Message Harm Girls and Young Women?
Does the Christian purity message (or as I tend to describe it ‘purity’) harm girls and young women? I’ve been concerned for a while that it does. The message is one that, in many ways, equates a person’s value with her behavior – and strongly suggests that premarital sex is [continue reading]
Help! My Child Isn’t Learning to Read in Kindergarten
The year Sam started kindergarten, he turned 6 in October. He was one of the oldest children in his class, and he didn’t know how to read. When he started first grade he was almost 7, and he still didn’t know how to read. Fortunately for Sam, he entered first [continue reading]