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Read more about the article Spring Break With Our Teenagers

Spring Break With Our Teenagers

  • Post published:March 31, 2025
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I am perhaps one of the rare parents who LOVES parenting teenagers, and being with all three of them for a few uninterrupted days in Florida was glorious. We played…

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Happy 16th Birthday, William

  • Post published:August 12, 2024
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William turned 16 last week. We ordered Indian food and ate ice cream cake and sang a song in his honor. The chorus (set to Taylor Swift’s Getaway Car) might…

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The Wonder of Kindness and Joy on Planet Earth

  • Post published:August 8, 2024
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Last year, after we returned from a week at Hope Heals Camp, I wrote that camp “is not a place where we lay out a message of salvation, but rather…

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Teens, Screens, and Summer

  • Post published:July 4, 2024
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When we turn the corner to summertime, I sink into gratitude for slower days and longer evenings, for hydrangeas and peaches, for more time together as a family. I also…

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What Happens with Three Days Away with Your Teenager

  • Post published:March 26, 2024
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I’ve never taken a mother-daughter trip with Marilee before. But this year over spring break, Marilee and I spent four nights together in Jamaica. I was a little worried we…

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3 Ways to Interact With Your Disengaged Teenager

  • Post published:March 14, 2024
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We now officially have three teenagers under our roof. Which means we have lots of pop music playing at all hours. And we go through more snacks than we do…

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It’s Always Too Much | Four Thousand Weeks

  • Post published:January 23, 2024
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So I’m in a really overwhelming time right now. We are in the midst of a long and drawn-out move. I’m staying in a rental house with Penny and Marilee…

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Never Enough

  • Post published:October 12, 2023
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“Not good enough.”   It’s a phrase that shows up in my head uninvited, with regularity. (And yes, for those of you wondering, I am an Enneagram One and my…

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7 Things That Happened During Our Week Without Screens

  • Post published:August 8, 2023
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For seven days, our family put down our devices (here's why we did this). William found a friend to keep up his Snap streak. Marilee and Penny turned off their…

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Happy 15th Birthday, William!

  • Post published:August 7, 2023
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Happy 15th Birthday, William! Henri Nouwen once wrote:  Birthdays need to be celebrated. I think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam, a promotion, or…

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