by Shannon Popkin | Jan 22, 2013 | Compassion, Rescue, Sin, Women
by: Heidi VriesmanI’m quickly approaching the second trimester of my pregnancy and have really enjoyed getting the babycenter.com updates in my inbox. The kids and I read them together and watch the video about how our baby is developing.The most recent...
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 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 4, 2013 | Compassion, Differences, Marriage, Roles
About six months into marriage, on a cold January day, we locked ourselves out of our second story apartment. My husband decided to use a big tank next to the house–a two story, which had been divided into apartments–to hoist himself up to a balcony on the...
by Shannon Popkin | Dec 11, 2012 | Anxiety, Compassion, Faith, Holidays
In one afternoon, her serene, predictable life disintegrated.She hadn’t done anything wrong, but everyone would think she had. Even though her community knew her to be a sweet, kind girl, she would still be presumed guilty until proven innocent–not the...