How to put on a jacket…

… both arms at once. This is how some parents teach their toddlers to put on jackets by themselves. If you work with young people, you probably know how much time and hassle this could save, especially if you’ve got several kids to get ready to go outside at the same time. Besides, kids like [...]

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Is underage dating training kids for failed relationships?

This young woman thinks so. And says why. hat tip: Barbara Curtis

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Book review: A Special Mother Is Born

Gerard Nadal writes: This book addresses one of the burning issues of our day. With prenatal diagnostics leading to the abortions of the less-than-perfect among us, with parents who are frightened into paralysis by these diagnoses and a medical establishment increasingly surrendering to the cowardice of eugenics, over thirty mothers and three fathers of special [...]

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Teaching silence

Michael Catt has a guest post by Stephanie Bennett, called Silence. Tucked in, near the end, is this: …But I believe we can carve silence into our day. It is said that Susannah Wesley, the mother of John and Charles Wesley, spent one hour each day in prayer. She gave birth to 19 children, and [...]

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Blessings in disguise: “Sometimes Miracles Hide” (updated)

Amen, and amen. If you do not let yourself love those who have obvious handicaps, you will never know the depths of true love. Will you be shallow, or deep? Ruthless, or reliable? Selfish, or loving? Added: Sometimes Miracles Hide (The Movement), at the singer/songwriter’s website.

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Women groomed for a career…

… often come to wish they’d learned more about being a wife and mother. Like this lady.

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Camp Hope, for Russian orphans

Via Lutherans for Life, I’ve just heard about new ways you might help older adoptable Russian children. Camp Hope is based in Iowa, and arranges one-week summer visits with host families, as well as attempting to find forever families for older kids. They have a matching fund drive going on through May 30.

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The influence of the family (or the lack thereof)

From Pia de Solenni: Real Romance Begins with Parents. In all the discussion these days about how we let girls dress, etc., she thinks that we’re mostly scratching the surface, when we could be looking deeper. The whole article is worth a read, but I get a big kick out of the beginning: One of [...]

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Sometimes a toddler will…

… think outside the bowl. Ah, yes. Victory via technicality. (Kids can be so good at this sort of thing.)

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Special needs adoption hits snag

A Russian judge has told prospective parents that they may not adopt a certain boy, because he has Down Syndrome. It wasn’t that long ago in this country that most parents of children with Down Syndrome were told that their children must be put into an institution, never to be part of a regular family. [...]

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