***Today, Bambi Moore of In the Nursery of the Nation joins us as our newest contributing writer At the Well! Please welcome her!*** “I had dat foste!” It’s like nails on a chalkboard. And it’s been around since Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. It grieves my heart when my children argue, bicker and habitually…
Category Archives: To Raise Them Up
When Your Credentials Get a Fever
About a year ago, in an attempt to win the Insane Mother of the Year award, I took my poor little family, struggling with sore throats, runny noses, and fevers, on a roughly fourteen hour each way trip to New York City for my college roommate’s wedding. If it had been for anything else (OK,…
In the Quiet
Five-twenty AM, it’s just him and I in the quiet of the morning. The tick-tock of the clock is magnified as we talk in hushed whispers to one another. Today is the day. The long planned for and anticipated day. Deer season has begun. We talk about what he’s going to do, where he’s going,…
Serve Them Apples of Gold
A verse in Proverbs says “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Simply meaning a right word spoken at the right time is a thing of beauty. Each one of us has our own “quirks,” or certain things we do a certain way – and it probably makes no…
Doing the “Hard Things” in Parenting
Some things are easy and some are hard. There are things that come naturally and things that don’t. Another way of saying it is that we are gifted in certain areas, and others…not. Seems obvious, no? But one thing that I constantly have to remind myself of, is that when we do the hard things,…
Snow Days and Homeschooling!
Q. Since there’s no missing the bus and no slippery and hazardous roads to avoid, do you still insist on having your children do their schoolwork on “southern snow days,” since they are few and far between? A. Nope…we take off! When I was homeschooled myself, my Mom let us take off, as well….
Ten Ways to Teach Your Children To Be Thankful This Christmas
Does Christmas seem to bring out the “gimmies” in your children? Have coveting and selfishness turned your little angels into green-eyed grinches? Are you disgusted with the attitudes you see, and wondering how you can encourage thankfulness, thoughtfulness, unselfishness and generosity in them? These ten suggestions helped in our home when raising our now-grown grinches ”angels.” 1)…
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