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...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Nov 15, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers
As with everything else in our culture these days, we seem to have this view that holidays need to be extraordinary. We have to go all the places, see all the displays, and deck all the halls. I think (hope) we’ve found that with the year we all had in 2020, we CAN...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Nov 8, 2021 | All Grown Up, Family Topics, Marriage, Teenagers, Toddlers, Wellbeing
In the 70’s/80’s (when we grew up), one of the most popular shows on the air was The Brady Bunch, which tackled the socially radical concept of two single parents getting married and creating their blended new family with 6 kids. Later, Cheaper by the Dozen did...
by justaskyourmompodcast | Nov 1, 2021 | Family Topics, Teenagers, Toddlers
In America, we love freedom, options, and choice. We want a certain make/model/color car. We get irritated when the shoes we want only come in taupe and not camel. When it comes time to vote, we sure do want our choice of candidate on the ballot. In the...
