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Seed Corn

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

It has been some time since I have walked through Illinois corn fields with my dog.  I love the Pennsylvania rolling hills and green trees but every once in a while I do miss the vastness of acre upon acre of corn.
For the most part the acres of corn are never touched by a farmer’s [...]

Merry Christmas

Monday, December 24th, 2007

May God’s love, so powerfully shown to us through sending His son to earth, be made real to you and your family this Christmas.
Mark and Ellen Strohm

Encourage Your Child To Reach For Great Hights

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

My father loved baseball and due to complaining about a lack of something to do, at age nine I was required to play little league.  Three years later I found myself on a competitive team with a coach who had something to prove.  This coach yelled and belittled his players.  For example, speaking so those [...]

Parenting Isn’t For Cowards

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

As a school principal, I meet with parents weekly who talk to me about their difficulties in parenting. Boys getting into punching matches while dad is away on business, girls sneaking online to post swear words on their friend’s sites, children stealing items from stores, and the list goes on. I listen to parents of [...]

School and Routines

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

In counseling with parents whose families are suffering from lack of routines, I have observed that they often believe the circumstances that lead to the chaos are outside of their control. While life’s circumstances occasionally force us to put aside routines for a time, typically those circumstances are temporary. It is often within our power [...]

Non Punitive Parenting?

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I have noticed a rise in websites and discussion groups where it appears young parents are proclaiming they have come up with a superior way of raising their children. The difference between this group and a very similar group from the 60’s - this group is using a few Scriptures and the “grace” theology as [...]

Is This Important Work?

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

When our children were very young, my wife would sometimes look deep into my eyes and say “I think I am losing it!  I need to speak to adults and remember how to hold a normal adult conversation.”
No wonder she would question her sanity.  She was in hand to hand combat all day with two [...]

More Important Than A Sale!

Monday, August 6th, 2007

My daughter Abby has been selling books on Amazon and every once and a while I grab a book and start reading it.  Recently I have been reading a small book that sold several million copies back in the 1970’s called The Greatest Salesman In The World  by OG Mandino.  The following quote comes from [...]

Your Child Can Do Chores!

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Hardly a month goes by where a parent will not comment to me that they find it very difficult to get their children to do chores. They know their child will reap many benefits from daily or weekly chores but they seem unable to make it happen. Here are a few thoughts to help make [...]

Our Family’s Church Funding Effort

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

As many of you know our family has been listing books on Amazon to help raise funds for our Church’s Legacy Project. Since we have many books that are hard to sell on Amazon due to the $3.99 per book shipping costs we have decided to try our hand at selling books on EBay! [...]

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