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Gaining Wisdom In Spite of Himself

The Mercenary gets annoyed with me – routinely – because I insist on working through problems step by step whenever he gets stuck on things in school. Drives him crazy! He is a person who hates systematic approaches to things, and would much rather just...

Bedtime Insights

My children at bedtime are kind of like those plates that entertainers spin on poles.  The difference is they want to keep spinning madly, while I want them to crash* to the ground. *by crash, I mean GO TO SLEEP.  Earnest Parenting: help for parents whose children are...

What is Your Ideal Parenting Picture? Part 3

In my second post on this topic, I asked the following question: How does your ideal parenting picture match up with the reality of your life? Some key ideas from my ideal picture are positive attitude and efforts in school family pursuit of hobbies and sports calm...

How I Saved Over 400 Dollars on Vacation

The whole family enjoyed a great trip to America’s Historic Triangle in Virginia last month. In case you are not aware, Jamestown Colony was founded in May of 1607, which makes this year the 400th anniversary. The older boys studied America’s colonies last...

Honoring Some Heroes

On our vacation we stopped and spent some time at the United Flight 93 Temporary Memorial in Shanksville, PA. When I was looking up our vacation route last month I noticed that we were going to drive within about a half hour of the crash site of Flight 93. As soon as...