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Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
An excellent, thought-provoking piece from Valerie at In Faith and Purity: Let’s be clear and make no confusion about my heart on this. I am not saying at all that if you use birth control of any kind, you are pro-abortion. I know many different families with many different views on children, and I know [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
Another excellent piece from Mercatornet: According to this Wall Street Journal blog piece: That’s the question of new, dueling research articles out in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, which try to explain the decline in marital happiness of some new mothers. I don’t need a research article (never mind two) [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
From the folks at Mercatornet: With the feverish discussion going on over at the Wall Street Journal about the parenting style of “Chinese mother” Amy Chua (nearly 7,000 comments, last time I checked), I’m not sure why I felt the need to toss in my two cents—perhaps I felt ‘called out’ to defend my own [...]
Diane Shiffer | January 31, 2011
Really, there’s nothing quite like it… After vainly combing the catalogs and internet looking for a plus-size lambswool fair isle cardigan in shades of gray and red (just looking you understand; just wasting time wishing and window shopping, a’course.) After weeks of that, there’s nothing quite like having your daughter set out to the Goodwill [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 30, 2010
From our dear friend Becky Morecraft: Here’s my theory and I’m sticking to it: the family that reads books together – aloud – as a part of their weekly fellowship, will always be ‘on the same page.’ I was read to often as a child and still love the sound of my mother’s voice reading some favorite [...]
Tiana Krenz | November 22, 2010
Has anyone ever asked you that question? If you care at all about raising your children to walk with God, chances are, you have. I will admit that I often feel like the lemming at the edge of the cliff, who, after seeing the fate that awaits him if he follows the crowd, turns around, [...]
Jennie Chancey | October 11, 2010
From the National Review Online: The former head of Planned Parenthood, Gloria Feldt, has a new book out, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change the Way We Think about Power and Leadership. Her interview with the New York Times suggests that the book is exactly what you’d expect. Feldt laments that women haven’t reached [...]
Tiana Krenz | October 7, 2010
“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young.” Isaiah 40:11 I have to admit, these words didn’t mean that much to me when I was a college girl singing the piece from [...]
Tiffany | October 7, 2010
Modern-day Christian parents can’t figure out why their children are turning away from God in droves and rejecting the faith they were raised with, and it’s not uncommon to hear older couples in churches speak with regret about their children “who aren’t following the Lord.” Bewilderment and confusion surrounds their thinking as they try to [...]
Jennie Chancey | October 7, 2010
This comes from an excellent piece by Mary R. Hasson over at Mercatornet: Many of today’s kids seem to be flunking the daily moral tests of life. James, a teacher-friend of mine, lamented recently how “morally challenged” his high school students seem to be. “They don’t think twice about lying or slamming someone’s reputation. Cheating [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 28, 2010
From the folks at Mercatornet: September 27 was CASA Family Dinner Day in the United States and a report from the research centre confirms the important role of family dinners in keeping teenagers connected to their parents and free of substance abuse…. Teens who have frequent family dinners (5 to 7 per week) are much [...]
Stacy McDonald | September 6, 2010
j A Mother and Child in an Interior by Peter Ilsted Today, I read a review of Passionate Housewives, the book I co-authored with Jennie Chancey; and, I breathed a sigh of relief. Since writing our book, Jennie and I have read numerous reviews and received hundreds of emails from readers testifying to the fact [...]
Jennifer McBride | August 25, 2010
Here’s a must read for all my fellow (often weary) mothers out there I had an experience that moved me a few years ago, though. It was an evening I spent bathing my children that very literally revolutionized my perspective on mothering. Longing to tell you all about it, I shared a similar version of [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 13, 2010
From Carolyn Moynihan over at Mercatornet: Evidence that girls are reaching puberty as early as seven years of age is in the news this week following the publication of an article in the journal Paediatrics. It is a topic that has been debated for decades…. Experts are not certain about the factors driving the trend, [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 12, 2010
Our good friend Candice Watters has some excellent things to say in response to the argument that daycare is actually good for mothers and children: Last Sunday, after eating scrambled eggs and donuts for brunch, we shifted to the living room for coffee and conversation with our guests, a young newly married couple in the [...]
