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Passionate Purposeful Parenting

The Tool Bag

The Tool Bag

My eldest son turned 14 in May. I was determined to find a birthday gift that would have lasting significance….
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How to Savor Parenting: Three Steps

How to Savor Parenting: Three Steps

Following is something I shared when I spoke with fellow moms at a local homeschool group last week. Today, I…
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Trust Him – Passionate Purposeful Parenting

Trust Him – Passionate Purposeful Parenting

I grew up in Southern California. One of our favorite summer Saturday outings as a family was to visit one…
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He waits…patiently

He waits…patiently

A four year old boy sits, waiting patiently. Ten minutes pass.  Twenty.  Thirty.  Still he sits, watching.  He leans in…
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Asking Forgiveness versus Saying I’m Sorry

Asking Forgiveness versus Saying I’m Sorry

Humpphh! {arms folded across the chest and frowning face} I’m sorry.  Would you please forgive me? {eye contact with another person…
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Daddy Destinations

Daddy Destinations

The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.  –Psalm 24:1 My wife…
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What We Need

What We Need

I recognized the cough. The bark that comes in the night after tucking in. So the youngest girl and I…
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Where is your identity found? by Melanie Robbins

I’m not a very good wife or mother sometimes.  My husband knows through my tone, attitude and words that I…
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Father/Son Retreat

Father/Son Retreat

…We drove to Petersburg, Kentucky.  Stopped along the way at Joyce Kilmer memorial forest.  We stayed in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.  We…
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Taming the “wild west”

In a recent post on Passionate Purposeful Parenting entitled Defense in Depth, I wrote about the methods we use to…
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It’s All in the Tone

We’re at the neighborhood pool on a Saturday. Littlest guy, who is not scared of the water at all, jumped…
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It’s All in the Tone

It’s All in the Tone

We’re at the neighborhood pool on a Saturday. Littlest guy, who is not scared of the water at all, jumped…
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Making Prayer a Priority by Melanie Robbins

God answered my son’s prayer for a $85 dollar Lego set with a YES. He found 70 dollars on the…
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