The Sex-Positive Movement and our Kids. . . Part 1
This week, I’m posting a three-part series on the Sex-Positive Movement, a trending and powerful influence on all of our kids. Today, Part 1. Almost thirty years have passed since an interviewer asked Madonna if she saw herself as “a…
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The TikTok Suicide Video: Guidance For Parents. . .
It was just two weeks ago, on Monday, August 31, that a 33-year-old Army veteran who had served in Iraq took his own life by firearm. . . all while livestreaming his death on Facebook. While we know little to…
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Why I Shocked My Dogs. . .
This morning I sat here thinking back over all the sad and sorry brokenness of the last six months. I was prompted to do so by receiving word that my friend Tim Russell’s memorial service is being held tonight. .…
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Jerry Falwell Jr., Becki Falwell, and Me. . .
“Everything is broken” sang Bob Dylan back in 1989. Has there ever been a song title that tells the honest-to-goodness truth in a more direct way than that? I don’t know. What I do know is that the older I get,…
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Cardi B, WAP, And Our Kids. . . Some Thoughts. . .
So the female rapper Cardi B has us all thinking. She’s got us all talking. And as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most-Influential-People of 2018 (labeled by Time in that list as a “pioneer”), her latest single release has landed…
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A Prayer For Kids At The Start Of The School Year. . .
School is starting. This year, some of our kids are heading to a building. Others are going to school online. Still others are being home-schooled out of necessity rather than choice. I love looking at all the first-day-of-school pictures that…
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My Kids, My Identity. . .
If it doesn’t happen, who is going to be more disappointed? You? Or your kids? That question haunted me in a personal way as I rode past a high school football stadium during the last week of July. Coaches and…
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My Marriage Prayer. . .
Last Sunday I experienced for the second and last time the joy of walking a daughter down the aisle. I did it eight years ago for my daughter Caitlin, and then this time for my daughter Bethany. Until you’ve done…
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Going Back To School
This is a guest post from Kim Seldomridge. Kim is a Board Member and Treasurer for the Center for Parent/Youth Understanding. He worked as a school adminstrator for over 35 years. You can download this blog post as a printable…
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How To Take A Social Media “Purposeful Pause”. . .
Two of social media’s most negative effects are 1) How it can become a time waster for both those who post and those who are consumed with reading posts, and 2) how social media is uniquely suited as a playground…
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A Prayer To Change The Spiritual Climate Of The World. . .
We live in a time marked by generational snobbery that has been shaped in large part by a marketing machine that encourages us to trash the old in favor of embracing only that which is new. Sadly, this commitment extends…
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2020: Summer Of Love?
Here we are, just a little over six months into 2020, and already we know that this will go down in our own histories as a year filled with unexpected challenges. The first half of the year has brought monumental…
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