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Let’s Talk Submission, Part 2: Some Practical Suggestions
Miracle at Cana by Valerian Ruppert Let’s Talk Submission: Part 1 Let’s Talk Submission Part 3: Last Thoughts We can do a lot towards rebuilding the husband’s role in our marriages: We need to stop...
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Helicopter Parenting, Hypersexualization and College Readiness (Rethinking...
In my previous post, I suggested that perhaps college is no longer the best way to prepare our children for life and career, but while hypersexualized youth is a big problem, that’s just the tip of...
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Help! We’re having a baby! How do I homeschool the toddler/older child(ren)?
[I wrote this post a year ago because a friend who was new to homeschooling AND was expecting a baby wanted to know how she could possibly homeschool when the demands on her time potentially could be...
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The Gentle and Arduous Task of Shepherding Little Souls
Yesterday after supper, the 6-year-old squeezed himself into the space between me and the back of the couch while I tried to catch up on reading. He does this often, using me alternately as pillow,...
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Intimacy Through the Lens of Fear (Part 2 of a Series)
The fear of intimacy is neither rare nor new. Every person has this fear, though we experience it to different degrees. Its root of course is a fear of rejection. As we raise our children, it is our...
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Birthing A (Firstborn) Adult
Image: Caroline Hernandez Despite maintaining a fairly public profile, I don’t like writing about personal stuff, especially about current issues that we are dealing with in our family, because I do...
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Why do parents find it bad if their children fall in love in high school?
Image: Hannah Busing You’ll have to define “bad”. Bad = not thinking things through, operating on emotion alone, allowing oneself to be in situations where one could make bad decisions that one will...
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A Character Report Card for Catholic Homeschoolers
We’ve been using this character report card sporadically for a while now. We updated it recently so we can use it with the 9-year-old who needs this kind of guidance and self-monitoring at this time....
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Q&A: How should we, as atheist parents, talk to our kids about god and religion?
Answering as a Catholic here. Even people raised religious have to own their faiths at some point. Every religious person at some point in their life questions why they believe what they believe, and...
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