This week’s guest blogger is LeAnne Trask, the Pollywog Database and Social Media Coordinator. LeAnne and her husband, Terry, are the parents of three college-age sons. As a young mom, […]
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What’s So Funny?
I remember the first time one of my children made a joke. My eldest daughter was barely a year old. She placed an empty bowl, with firm deliberation, upside down […]
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Foster Parenting
I encounter foster parents quite a bit in my line of work. Of all the categories into which people can be sifted, I believe that foster providers have one of […]
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A Parent’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, in his influential book Man’s Search for Meaning, drew from his experience as a prisoner in the concentration camps at Auschwitz to assert (and I don’t think anyone […]
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Disparate Youth
An interesting issue came up in our Nurturing Fathers class recently: is there a right time to introduce a concept to your child when they might not otherwise know about […]
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Rough Patch
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this lately, but my wife Kyrie is super well trained in child development. We’re talking the whole gestalt ball of wax: Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, […]
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She’s Not Me
This week’s post is by featured contributor Esther Schiedel. We hope that you enjoy it and, as always, we look forward to future posts by Esther. I watched as my […]
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Parenting Styles: Between the Brick Wall and the Jellyfish
As we experience the rise of authoritarian regimes around the world, please read carefully as I suggest that what we need is more authoritative ones. That suffix makes all the […]
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The Case of The Pillow
Here’s something that happened. My second youngest daughter, the quintessential middle child, was turning nine. I, who have never walked by a Star Wars branded product I didn’t stop to […]
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Volunteering
As much as I write about ways to guide and structure the lives of our kids (as much as that is advisable or possible), I am always surprised by the […]