It was so fun to be on the WOTV4Women program, “Where you Live” with Maranda yesterday! I’m thrilled with the opportunity I had to share about my book with my community, and wanted to share the experience with you! Thanks, Maranda! Thanks Wood TV 8!!...
I’m thankful for the opportunity to be the “teen mom” on the Dove parenting blog. This post appeared there first. It’s an undeniable fact. Some movies are good. Others are, well, bad. I’m not talking about cinematography, plot, acting or directing....
Here’s my first post on Dove’s brand new Parenting Blog. When I was a kid, I always thought I was getting away with murder when I read under the covers past bedtime. But now, I wonder. Did my parents look in, see the flashlight under the covers, and sneak...
I’m so excited about an opportunity I have to write for the newly launched Dove Parenting Blog! (Read the first post HERE!) I’ll be contributing to the blog as a mom of teenagers. If you have teens, I’m assuming you have media issues (like we...
I love movies with redemptive underlying messages. I’ve talked before about evaluating books or movies, based on whether they celebrate good or evil. As you watch or read, do you want the characters to do what is right or what is wrong? Does the movie make you...
Dear Seventeen-Year-Old Me, Right about now, you’re noticing that it only takes a few inches of skin to make you more noticeable—especially to boys. Whether you want to admit it or not, girls like that sense of power they get when boys glance at them. It’s...
Some years ago I bought a bunch of perennial flower bulbs, planted them, and waited to see what would happen. I had no idea what colors might pop out of those clenched green fists, and I could hardly keep myself from prying the blooms open! I would study them every...
When I read a blog title, “My Daughter Wants to Download Raunchy Music”, this morning, I thought, “Yeah, how am I going to handle it when that happens?” So I read on.Her eight-year-old asked, for the first time, to download some songs. And...
My middle schooler told me yesterday that he took a nap on the bus en route to his track meet.I said, “A nap? Wasn’t it kind of noisy to take a nap?” I was remembering what my bus was like in middle school–with rowdy kids calling out to each...
The following is a paraphrased conversation my friend and I had about facebook, and whether to let our teens get their ‘wall’ on. We both wondered if you have anything else to add to the discussion…Friend: My son just turned 13 and is asking for a...