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Saturday, December 31st, 20111 Timothy 6:6: But godliness with contentment is great gain. Let me wish each of you a very happy New Year! As I look back on 2011 I am not sure I would want to relive this year. My wife and I estimate that I was sick for roughly half of 2011. As the year [...]
5 Steps To Keep Your Child Safe In the Changing Technology Landscape
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011I just read a major family ministries “hint” on how to keep your child safe online. Their hint – keep the family computer in a common area. What? That may have worked 5 years ago, but today’s changing technology landscape has brought new challenges demanding new strategies for parents living in 2012! iPods, iPhones, iPad, [...]
Merry Christmas from the Strohms
Saturday, December 24th, 2011Dear Family and Friends, The Strohm family would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! This has been an eventful year for us! From the bottom of our hearts we would like to thank the many, many friends and family who prayed, sent notes, made calls both during Mark’s Mom’s [...]
Boys Adrift – Book Review
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011Because I have been facing some health issues over the last few months I have been forced to trim my activities thus leaving more time for reading. One book I have recently read: Boys Adrift, The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Youn Men, by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. [...]
How To Make Sure Your Son Struggles With Pornography
Monday, November 28th, 2011This article on our sister site Cyber Safety Seminar continues to be a vital message for moms and dads! I urge you to read this if you have a son 9 or older! Please don’t assume that your son will be able to fight the temptation of easy, readily available pornography. Take a few minutes [...]
Upcoming Radio Show
Thursday, October 13th, 2011I will have the privilege of addressing the importance of protecting children on facebook, the internet and against the onslaught of media on Yonah’s Heart – a Canadian Home School and Family radio show. You can find out more at http://yonahsheart.com/ Broadcast date: Monday October 17th, 2-3 PM EST You can listen directly here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mpiatt/2011/10/17/social-media-and-todays-children
Picky Eaters
Sunday, September 25th, 2011It is the classic Mother – Child struggle. You know what your child should be eating, but he does not want to eat what you have cooked. My 80 year old father was a picky eater as a young child. A testament to the reality that this mom-child struggle has been going on for a [...]
Yelling In The Home
Thursday, September 8th, 2011On one of the Christian Parenting forums I keep an eye on, the following post caught my eye: “It seems like my house is so full of yelling. Just to normally communicate something like “May I have Juice” my 2 to screams it at unnecessary decibels. Then there’s the fighting where they both just scream [...]
10 Lessons Learned
Thursday, August 4th, 2011My house has been alive with my 2 ½ and a 1 ½ year old granddaughters for the last week. I honestly forgot what the constant motion and constant vigilance was like! I learned (or re-learned) 10 things: #1 – Never leave sharp knives in the dishwasher where little ones can get them. NEVER! #2 [...]
How Will Your Child Remember You?
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011My 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 [...]
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