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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010I am excited about the 25 Days of Christmas Devotions! Tomorrow will be the first day and the “largest” of the craft projects. So, if you would like you can print out the project today and get ready for putting it together tomorrow. This Scripture Chain will also help you “countdown” until Christmas. Print here [...]
Advent Time Is Here
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Tomorrow is the first Day of December. I would like to invite you to come by each day in December for a short Christmas story, a Christmas Chain Link and a simple craft for you to do with your children. I hope to bring Christ into focus this Christmas. If you would like to receive [...]
Rules To Live By
Saturday, October 9th, 2010My daughter Julie and I spent some time putting together some rules to live by from Ephesians 4 and 5. We did this as part of a resource we are creating for Christian high school students to think about when they are online. They are great life rules for all ages. I thought I would [...]
TV, Video and Your Child
Monday, September 27th, 2010This morning I was going through a mound of research and articles on the affects of TV on children. It can be very overwhelming! According to the articles I was reading the following are concerns with too much television consumption: Poor achievement including – poor homework completion, negative attitudes toward school, poor grades and [...]
It Is Time To Protect Our 9-12 Year Old Boys
Friday, September 17th, 2010Lets be honest, girls have been getting a lot of attention from horrifying cyber stories. From bullying to sexting, abductions and even murders the papers and media have been crying out to protect our girls. No doubt this is an appropriate cry, but the lack of equal attention on protecting boys is sad because they [...]
Cyber Safety
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010The latest Blog Talk Radio program (heard every Monday night at http://blogtalkradio.com/markstrohm) was a return to a subject I feel strongly about – Cyber Safety. It never ceases to amaze me the new ways in which people think up sinful things to do. I read where 3 high school boys were conned into thinking a [...]
Better Than Gold
Saturday, February 20th, 2010I am thinking about the Olympics and the training and instruction of our children. Olympic champions rise to the top through a combination of their God given talent and a HUGE amount of drive. “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such [...]
Rights vs. Obligations
Friday, February 12th, 2010Today on the radio a mother talked about her teen son who went shopping with a group of friends at a local mall. Meeting his friends for lunch he discovered that he was not charged for one article of clothing in his bag. Upon announcing his frustration with having to return to pay for the [...]
Avoid Homework Battles
Sunday, October 11th, 2009School is in full swing again. For some families school time marks the beginning of homework struggles! The hope and dreams of a fresh start with the new year being different have quickly faded and instead many parents and their child are once again engaged in the dreaded homework battles. I have often heard frustrated [...]
Mothers
Sunday, May 10th, 2009When Ellen and I had two children and another on the way we had a conversation with a neighbor who had been married many more years than we were. When asked about the possibility of children, she emphatically stated that children were not in her life goals. She had many milestones she had hoped to [...]
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