Motherhood

What’s The One Most Important Thing?
We recently reached a milestone online – our Facebook page Raising Real Men has gathered 20,000 fans. In the discussion that morning, one of our readers asked, “As a single mom, can you tell me the one most important thing I can teach my son?” (more…)
Six Ways to Beat Bickering
A friend asked recently: Ok ladies, it's time for me to do some major/drastic behavior boot camp in this house. I am committing to staying home for several days, going nowhere and do nothing but set straight some major behavior issues we have here. I need some advice, though...How do I handle/tackle my 4 and…
Grand Theft Auto V and Hoods In Training
The headlines have been everywhere this week. Grand Theft Auto V is out and, to listen to social media, everyone is super-excited. Well, not everyone, but it sold $800 million dollars worth the very first day! And it has over 4.3 million fans on Facebook. We were thinking about this today when we read the…
Boy Secrets: Laundry
Do you have any great laundry tips for raising boys? If you have boys, you'll need to remove bloodstains, grass stains and neon stains you can't imagine the source of! :-)
Hope When You Feel Like a Homeschool Failure
Have you ever wanted to leave a homeschool magazine  unopened because it just reminded you of your failures? Or felt sad instead of excited when you saw a homeschool catalog? We've been homeschooling for nearly two decades. I've been that mom that was shirt-popping proud of my children and our homeschooling. I've also been that…
Guest Post: Kristyn Getty on Mother’s Day Prayers
I noticed an older journal of mine amongst the debris of an Eliza playtime around my bookshelf and sat down to leaf through it. Before the sickness and tiredness of pregnancy, in the days when I had time in abundance and thought I was 'busy',  my most focused and best devotional times were always when…
A Mother’s Prayer by Kristyn Getty
Keith & Kristyn Getty are some of our favorite modern songwriters. Right up there with our son, Matt Henry Young (BTW, if you haven't listened to this song of his, you need to!). :-) They write songs of praise that aren't merely choruses or full of mindless repetition, but instead are full of faith-building truth just…

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