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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 [...]
Parent’s Rights
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009As Christians and personally, as someone who has appreciated the right to choose a Christian education for my children, I am alarmed when government feels they need to issue “rights” for our children. Nearly always these “rights” are not at all intended for the good of our children, but rather for the propagation of specific [...]
Happy New Year
Friday, December 26th, 2008To many children the New Year is nothing but another vacation. But to parents, being more reflective, New Years is a time to assess and evaluate how life is going. As parents this is a good time to reflect on our children. Is your parenting putting your children in the best position possible to learn [...]
The Wonder Of Christmas
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008When I was young I would love to help my dad hang up the Christmas lights on the house. The lights were bigger back then and would shine brightly. Vivid memories of those shinning lights remain today. Last week a mom at the school where I work relayed that her first grade son called called [...]
School Is Back In Session
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Ahh, the start of school. Once again our streets are filled with yellow school busses, crossing guards and children in backpacks. This time each year parents turn over their beloved little ones to be shapped and molded by well trained adults who spend a good amount of time carefully planning what they will teach those [...]
The Importance of Grandparents, Part 2
Monday, April 28th, 2008Andrew, my oldest of 4 children, who by the way is getting married in a week, was in 7th grade. As with so many boys that age he decided that home work was an option. Despite the best attempts of teachers his mother and even his educator father, Andy continued to have missing homework assignments [...]
Seed Corn
Thursday, April 10th, 2008It 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 [...]
The Three Legged Stool
Monday, March 31st, 2008I have been reading the book Prude by Carol Platt Liebau. It has been a real eye opener for me. As the father of three girls I have been angered at how a large portion of our culture has bombarded our girls with message after message telling them that only sad, unintelligent, ugly people keep [...]
Some things God Does Not Want Us To Know
Monday, March 24th, 2008Years ago when I would study a subject I would gather as many Scriptures on the subject as I could. I would then read and re-read those Scriptures until I could see a clear pattern or a clear Biblical instruction. Here are some Scriptures on what God does not want us (or our children) to [...]
Do We Teach Our Children To Lie?
Monday, February 25th, 2008My daughter Alli pointed me to this excellent blog entry from Albert Mohler, author of Culture Shift. In it he challenges us to think about a topic we would rather push under the rug – that of lying. It is an excellent read. http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1101 May God’s grace and peace be with you, Mark Strohm
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