Category: Parenting
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A doua mamă – Jodi Jackson Tucker
Un studiu biblic pentru mame adoptive și de plasament Ești “a doua mamă”? Atunci trăiești o viață pe care numai o a doua mamă o poate înțelege. Familia ta este complicată și imperfectă. Ai înțeles. Cea mai mare nevoi a ta este de încurajare, de înțelepciune biblică și de alte mame ca tine.
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Părintele conectat
Chiar și în cele mai bune condiții, creșterea copiilor poate fi dificilă. Cu atât mai mult, copiii care au avut primii ani de viață în locuri grele, adesea aduc provocări neașteptate. S-ar putea să fi descoperit că metode ce au dat rezultate cu un copil să nu meargă cu altul, în special dacă acest copil…
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Packing for a trip
When thinking about what I’ll need on a trip, I live in anticipation and it doubles the joy of traveling, I always liked packing. As far as I can remember, I packed my own bags. I know some people need a list, so they don’t have to think about the necessary stuff. And I now…
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Not ready to launch
My eldest is having a sleepover with a friend. Ivy asked if she could join. Jackie agreed without skipping a beat. I loved her generosity and kindness. Evening came. I cleaned the girls room just because they weren’t home to mess it up with socks and stuffed animals, and was looking forward to a date…
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The necessity to address the present burnout
It’s easier to talk about most things if they are in the past. Granted it takes some courage and vulnerability to open up even then, and it’s easier if you are confident in your identity. Who you are and your worth is not defined by a season in life, a set of circumstances, how you…
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Coping mechanisms and temptation entering school age
When I was around 5 I visited with my grandmother an old grannie in the village. She was making carpets and other crafty things out of colorful threads. My grandmother was also a carpet maker and I helped her with that craft as a kid. That grannie had many spools of colorful thread. I remember…
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Lifestyle and schoolwork
We were watching a show in the evening when the teacher sent a text to the parents that she gave our kids their math test results back. And she encouraged everyone to check the kids homework and help them the best we can to practice math at home through homework. I turned to Jackie and…
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Being an author – International book day
Last week Conrad was invited to talk about being an author, how he started, what it entails, and how do authors make money. It was money week at the International school. Today is international book day and I was invited to Jackie’s class to share about my experience as a book author. This class loves…
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Kids speaking up
I had to return something to decathlon and Jackie needed some new shoes. Sandals we thought. At decathlon they didn’t bring sandals in stock yet so she tried some profesional soccer shoes, with crampons, the kind she would wear only on the field of grass. She is not a professional player. She likes the idea…
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Women together
We simplified the decor and the drama of booking a guest speaker and focused on getting to know each other, building community sharing and listening, while learning something new in the process. We sometimes get lost on the artificial meeting focus, but hospitality is about helping women feel welcomed and safe, not through gifts or…
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New challenges. New boundaries.
We have experienced first hand how addictive the iPhone can become. When we watched from the sideline the other families, how easily they gave in to kids’ demand of iPads and iPhones, we decided to have a proactive approach and implement boundaries for ourselves first. Conrad has an app limit which he abides by most often. …
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Equals
The summer I met my lifetime American friends I was 14. They were from California and they asked us all to call them by their first names. We ever called any adults in such a direct way. This invitation created a type of closeness that we delighted in. We felt seen. Adults liked us and…