by Shannon Popkin | Jan 23, 2013 | Anxiety, Parenting, seasons, Serving
The Lord is my Shepherd. I shall not want.He makes me lie down in green pastures,he leads me beside still waters,he restores my soul.Psalm 23:1-3″Mommy, where are my socks? I have none in my drawer.””Mom, Cade needs you. He just spilled all the dog...
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 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...
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 5, 2012 | Holidays, Jesus, Kids' Perspective, Wisdom
After my student played “Away in a Manger” for me on the piano, she asked, “What’s a manger?”I said, “Oh! It’s a feeding trough for animals. Remember how Mary and Joseph had to stay in a stable with animals, the night Jesus...