by Shannon Popkin | Nov 26, 2011 | Holidays, Kids' Perspective, Prayer
I was driving in the car with Lindsay one November day, when she was in kindergarten. Suddenly, she caught her breath in alarm, as if she had just remembered something.”What is it?” I asked.She said, “Mommy! In our kindergarten class, we never…...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 19, 2011 | Kids' Perspective, Mistakes, Parenting, Teens
In eighth grade Language Arts, Lindsay was asked to write about her Michigan Hero. I’ll let her surprise you…When someone asks me who my Michigan Hero is I think of an experience I had in fourth grade….In Math class, I was bent over, squinting at my...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 12, 2011 | Kids' Perspective, Sin
When he was about four, Cade asked me if there will be pirates in heaven. He really loved pirates and wanted to be sure that his mateys would be walking next to him on the streets o’ gold. Since pirates are fundamentally people who greedily steal from others, I...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 10, 2011 | Kids' Perspective, Parenting
When Cade was a preschooler, Ken told him, “Come here and let me help you wipe your nose.” But Cade responded, “Oh, that’s ok, Dad. Because, look… I know how to get it all back up in there.” And he gave a giant sniff.Do you...
by Shannon Popkin | Nov 4, 2011 | Compassion, Parenting, Sin
“I want to go punch that little boy in the nose!” I punched the air with my free hand for emphasis, and almost dropped the phone. My friend on the other line commiserated with my story. She understood how my heart hurts for my own child, and how I long to...
by Shannon Popkin | Oct 31, 2011 | Holidays, Parenting
I always forget how busy Halloween is. A man at our school’s parade told me that his girls deliberate over carefully scrutinized costume catalogs several months prior, and have their costumes lined up in a closet at the beginning of October. That sounds so...