Tag: parenting

• Parenting Rule #1: Stop looking the “gift horse” in the mouth

  

  I had always wanted children. I simply had no idea that raising them — or parenting them once their decisions were all theirs — could feel so hard.

  Sara

  April 23, 2019

  adult children, Christian life, Humor, parenting

  adult children, children, children are a blessing from the Lord, parenting

• My kids make me feel 16 feet tall

  

  Thinking about my own mothering moments makes me feel 16 feet tall at times. But today, my thoughts are with my friend Kaylen, who is celebrating her first Mother’s Day. She came into motherhood the hard way — not through nine months of anticipation and body oddities followed by “Labor Day,” but merely by falling […]

  Sara

  May 13, 2018

  character, Humor, Mother’s Day, parenting

  blended family, mother, Mother’s Day, parenting, personal growth, stepmother

• Let the empty nest begin…

  

  I have entered that period so many lament: the empty nest. My five children have left me one by one. But rather than lament it, I say…

  Sara

  June 8, 2016

  empty nest, Humor, life, parenting

  anti-nesting, children, empty nest, empty nest syndrome, funny, motherhood, nesting, parenting, rites of passage, son, stages of life, weeding writing & ROI

• The goal of parenting…

  

  I hadn’t realized until it happened that having one of my children host the holiday meal was a goal of parenting.

  Sara

  April 2, 2016

  Christian life, family, Humor, life, parenting

  benefits of parenting, children, Easter dinner, goal of parenting, have children host holiday dinner, holiday dinner, host, hosting, parenting