What to say when your young child doesn't want to go to church
"I hate going to church! It's boring!" Sound familiar? My young kids say things like this now and then. Here's how I respond to them.
"I hate going to church! It's boring!" Sound familiar? My young kids say things like this now and then. Here's how I respond to them.
Sociologist Christopher Lasch once wrote, "Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task."
Tensions between state-run schools and parents have a long legal history in the U.S. And transgender issues have intensified the conflicts in classrooms and courtrooms.
Even with four beautiful children, I still consider myself to be infertile. I still carry those scars with me. Though faded, they remain.
It's the only job in the world that comes with benefits that are eternal.
The extraordinary richness of what-it-is-to-be-human can be veiled by its normality. Wisdom is often in noticing things so ordinary that they escape notice. Such as motherhood.
There's no shortage of conversations these days about men and masculinity.
"Whether these people will endure it, I do not know; but I know very well that no man will who has a sword!" - Lucius Verginius, in Livy's History of Rome*
Eight ways to use misbehavior as an opportunity to build character.