By Carolyn Moore There Are No Shortcuts Through Anxiety, But I’ll Hold Your Hand Through it
I wish I could take this from you. I wish I could fight this battle for you. Spare you the…
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By Heidi Farrell Behind Every Strong-Willed Child is a Vulnerable Soul
My little girl—she has a firecracker personality. As an infant, she was a big kid trapped in a baby’s body…
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By Laura Niebauer Palmer The Moment We Saw Him We Knew He Was Meant To Be Our Son
Recently I was posed a question: “How in your life have you experienced the grace of God?” Immediately, my heart…
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By Nikki Pennington I’m Raising Sons Who Will Break Your Daughters’ Hearts
As a mom of all boys, I’m always hearing “He’s going to break some hearts one day,” and then I’m…
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By Kelli Bachara You Don’t Get All Of My Attention as the Baby of the Family, But You Get Something Even Better
To my littlest, The truth is, you don’t get the attention your big brother did. He got us 24/7, at…
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By Cara Arnold “Mama…I’m Scared”
SUDEP. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. SUDEP killed Disney Channel star Cameron Boyce and brought “the unspoken” into my home.…
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By Kathy Wetsell God Can Mold the Anxious Child Into a Confident Adult
As I write this, my firstborn is 5,633 miles away in Taormina, Sicily. This is the farthest she has ever…
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The New Amazon Toy Catalog is the Sears Catalog of Your Childhood
When you open your mailbox this week, you might find a piece of your childhood waiting inside. In a page…
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By Kimberly Knowle-Zeller Taking Kids to Church is Hard But Holy Work
With donut-filled cheeks and sticky fingers, Charlotte and Isaac skip down the hallway behind me to find a seat in…
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By Kelsey Scism Dear Husband: To Us, You Are a Superhero
I stand in my kitchen wishing for a superhero to swoop in and save the day. His cape flying behind…
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Gotcha, For the Rest of Our Lives
The stout and stern, dark-haired judge scared the living heck out of us. She fired one question after another and…
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By Sarah E.B. Christison I’m the Mom of the Mean Kid; He Needs Love, Too
My son is feeding the homeless today. Not because he is a good person (which he is), and not because…
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