Category: Motherhood

What happens to Mom when the kids become teenagers?

And how do you negotiate these years without feeling rejected? The teen years for any family is a time of turmoil because your role as parent is changing and your child’s role is also changing. Where you used …

Nurturer to Coach

There comes a time in a parent’s life when there is a shift that needs to take place. A shift from nurturing to coaching.  It usually takes you by surprise because it is as if one day your …

Parenting Teens

Parenting teens is not easy, but we have been given the tools we need to help them negotiate this season of transition in their lives. The teen years are not easy to negotiate.  There isn’t a manual to …

Gone too soon

How do you process the loss of a miscarriage? This week, I have prayed for two precious sisters who have lost a baby in the womb. The heartache and the sense of loss is tremendous. I would like to …

Being Present with Your Teen

I came across this post this morning, written in 2010, I love the simple wisdom and the reminder that our relationship with our teens is what will determine response to us. Short and sweet and to the point, …

Isaiah 54:13

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children.

Passing on the batton to the next generation …..

I have been reading a book by Bill Johnson of Bethel Church and found this exerpt which I have burning on my heart to share. As I studied the Old Testament, I have been amazed to see how …

The tough part of mothering a girl

  She says she’s “Okay”, but is she?  I see the insecurity she masks so well. I see how she adapts her personality to fit in with what is okay in your group and what is not …… …

When God whispers

Motherhood … a sweet desire in a little girl’s heart, a dream, a picture of love and a desire for perfection – to be the perfect mother and have perfect children… Before my eldest son was born, we …

Lessons in parenting