For many years, I assumed that I was supposed to sacrificially serve my family and say nothing about my own needs. This only resulted in resentment on my part and insensitivity on their part.   I will share some lessons I learned along the way that helped our whole family to be more...

Moses, a man God praised for his humility, and to whom God gave incredible responsibility and privileges, once disobeyed God in a moment of frustration with His people. The consequence of his sin was that he was not allowed to enter the promised land that he had been leading the Israelite nation...

It's important to get to know our children well, so our expectations of them are realistic. It's also good to know when to adapt to their needs, and when they are capable of adapting to ours.   When our daughters were 8 and 6 years old, I took them on a mother-daughter retreat. I was...

When parents have differing opinions about child rearing, it is best to privately discuss our views and come up with a plan of how to handle that with the children. We should help our children learn to respect other's opinions and how to look for compromises but be united in our decisions about...

We must beware of complaining and passing our dislikes onto our children. One day, in 1993, while I was at a luncheon, I began talking to a woman about how I didn't like housework, cooking or sewing. She asked what my mother's attitude had been like in regard to those things. I said she was very...

We must not let our desire to make our children happy cause us to be insensitive to others. When our children were young, an incident came up where both girls had been invited to parties on a day that my husband and I would be out of town. The girls were disappointed, but they accepted the fact...

Hannah's story can be found in the Bible (1 Samuel). In those days, men often had more than one wife. It was also considered a disgrace to be barren. Hannah was barren and she suffered the taunts of her husband's other wife, who had children. Hannah cried out to the Lord for a son, promising that...

Sometimes, in life, I get so caught up in the task of problem-solving, that I overlook the obvious. In 2014, our 33 year old special needs son had been struggling with depression and anxiety. We had discussed and tried so many ways to help him find purpose in life, and we were in the process of...

In 1983, I decided, with Tom's support, to quit teaching and stay home full time. Our son, Shon, who has cerebral palsy due to a premature birth, was one and half years old at that time. Since Tom was working and I was now home, most of the responsibility for researching our options for Shon fell...