Can You Understand Your Child’s Speech?

When I heard the words “My ball died” coming out of the mouth of a preschool boy I was seeing for speech therapy, I tried not to show alarm. “Tommy” didn’t seem to be too upset, but he was clearly trying to tell me about something that mattered to him. I had not heard of any recent loss in this...

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How Unusual Days Make for Intelligently Unusual Kids

Our normal day includes reading aloud, math concepts, vocabulary exercises, a little writing, a little Bible discussion, science experiments, notebook pages and a big whiteboard checklist that guides us through everything in a day.  Recently we’ve had opportunities for some unusual days; days when we learned in other ways...

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What Do You Have in Your Hand?

I want to share with you a question that was paradigm changing for me. It is this:  “What do you have in your hand?” What do you have, right now, that you can give, use, steward. This is the question God posed to scruffy sheep herder Moses after forty years of herding nature’s “animal most likely to accidentally kill...

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Nurturing a Passion for Medical Careers

Does your family have a budding nurse, a therapist in waiting, or a wanna be surgeon? We all know that children have a different answer almost every month to the “what do you want to be when you grow up” question. But if that passion for medicine seems to be long lasting, you may want to encourage it. Besides providing a...

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Book Club: What Happens When Women Say Yes To God by Lysa TerKeurst

What Happens When Women Say Yes to God: Experiencing Life in Extraordinary Ways was an unbelievably encouraging book to read. I was happy to see how transparent Lysa was in discussing personal trials and triumphs. To me, this really helped to bring the message home. The underlying message throughout the book is that God should...

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