Fri 19 Sep, 2008

Enjoying the Gift but Loving the Giver More

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In our diocesan parenting program, “Teaching the Way of Love,” one of the points we make is that we need to teach our children how to receive love well in addition to teaching them how to give love. I tell the story of Christmas at my parents’ home and at the home of my in-laws.

At my wife’s family’s Christmas celebration the kids are turned loose at a designated… Continue reading

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Wed 28 Mar, 2007

Parenting, science and feminism

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USNews.com: Has a century of child-raising advice taught us anything? Expert opinions through the yearsDr. Ray Guarendi is right! Not that I needed U.S. News World Report to tell me that. However, I find this article very interesting. Dr. Ray claims that parenting experts have ruined parenting by making parents paranoid that they might permanently damage their children, maybe even causing them to appear on Jerry Springer to
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Mon 19 Mar, 2007

Women in History

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USNews.com: Cokie Roberts on the founding mothersHistory books rarely mention the woman who, in a way, signed the Declaration of Independence.Mary Katherine Goddard was a printer who ran a newspaper in Baltimore. She printed the declaration, and her name is right there on it, at the bottom. She later became the first female postmaster in the country, but then a man wanted her job, and got it.You include recipes
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