by Shannon Popkin | Jan 17, 2013 | Parenting, Sin, Teens, Wisdom
I think parents of today’s teens are in a unique situation.I’m not saying I’ve discovered something ‘new under the sun’. Our kids struggle with the same sins of pride, fear, lust, and jealousy that the kids 200 years ago did. But there...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 15, 2013 | Jesus, Mistakes, Prayer, Speaking, Witness
Our first house was in a neighborhood that had no stop signs. Weird, I know. It was a grid of intersecting side streets, and our little house–situated on a corner lot–looked out upon one of the many intersections.There was an unwritten rule in the...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 12, 2013 | Discipline, Humility, Leadership, Mistakes
“You’re not going to be happy,” I heard my husband say into the cell phone.He was at home, checking whether our dryer had a three or four prong cord. I was at Best Buy, trying to buy the correct replacement. But it turns out we have no electric cord...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 10, 2013 | Change, Parenting
I love the story my friend Lora recently posted on facebook. She said that it was past her seven-year-old’s bedtime, but rather than drifting off to sleep, she heard him up, throwing an absolute fit.When she ran in to find the cause for his hysterics, she...
by Shannon Popkin | Jan 8, 2013 | Family, Kids' Perspective, Mistakes, Parenting
When I put Cade’s jeans into the washer, I noticed something. There was a unique c-shaped hole in the knee. It caught my eye because it was the same c-shaped hole that I had noticed yesterday.Could I have just washed these jeans yesterday? I called him in, to...