by justaskyourmompodcast | Dec 27, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Health, Marriage, Wellbeing
You’re probably painfully familiar with New Year’s resolution statistics, if only because you’re one of them: Whether it’s a small goal or a huge, life-changing goal, people tend to fail at the same rate: Approximately 80 percent of people who...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Dec 20, 2021 | Family Topics, Marriage
We’ve reached the end of another year. How’s your marriage doing? Have you given it any thought? Are you coasting along? Running off the road a little? We’re not marriage EXPERTS—just as we aren’t parenting “experts”—but we’ve each...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Dec 13, 2021 | Family Topics, Marriage, Teenagers, Toddlers
John Stonestreet is known for saying that there isn’t really parenting. There is mothering and fathering. Both a mother and a father bring differing strengths and benefits to a child. David Blankenhorn in his book Fatherless America explains that films about family...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Dec 6, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Marriage, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
To give completely. Without reservation. That’s the original root of the word forgive. Why is this so hard for some of us? Perhaps it’s fairly easy to let the minor things go—he ate the last slice of cherry pie, she forgot to pick up the...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Nov 29, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
I don’t think families are mentoring one another in prayer nearly enough. Somehow we think that you just start talking to God and that’s it. But Jesus’s own disciples asked him to teach them to pray! Prayer can feel HARD. It’s called a spiritual DISCIPLINE for a...
