Every Parent Has Different Views on Appropriate Consequences for Inappropriate Behavior How do we determine the proper consequences when our children behave badly? Child punishment and the results of bad behavior is an emotional post for me to write. My hesitation isn’t due to my beliefs. Instead, it seems everyone has a different viewpoint on […]
Compassion
Promise Me, Dad – Joe Biden & Beau’s Final Year
Promise Me, Dad – Book Review of Joe Biden’s Book. Losing a child is every parent’s nightmare. In his book, Promise Me, Dad, Joe Biden recounts the last year of Beau Biden’s life. I chose the audiobook, and I’m so glad I did. Joe Biden narrated the book himself. As I listened, It ripped me from my […]
Thou Shalt Not Judge – Really?
Regardless of Our Best Intentions, We All Judge Others When I came home sobbing because all the kids on the bus were chanting “Great Big Gobs of Greasy Grimey Gopher Guts,” Mom always responded with the same words: “Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged!” It was the perfect chant to bully a kid with the […]