Enriching the Soil of Your Life
Abigail Adams recognized the importance of teaching her own children. She stressed children should be taught by mothers who were not merely literate, but students themselves, and she was ready to speak out in favor of home-education every chance she had. She would have supported parents making an exodus from public schools (government schools) today!
She was a fabulous early example of how homeschooling could and should look….
As a surgical RN and as a mom, I have always been a stickler on proper handwashing! Just ask my family!
So when my friend Jaralee Annice Metcalf did a handwashing experiment with her students to show why it is so important, I was thrilled because the results were disgusting! What a great teachable moment it made!
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We attended a small church years ago with the family of a young boy who had a severe peanut allergy. This family lived in a state of constant concern. They could not eat at restaurants, they shared pitchins with us with extreme caution. We were all on high alert as he had experienced repeated anaphylactic reactions to peanuts. They kept an epi-pen on hand everywhere they went. The vigilant parents felt even trace amounts on the lip or skin or even the scent of the food could trigger a reaction. It was very hard on their child and family.
Back then we had no idea why this happened….
This booklist of older (sadly-forgotten) children’s books is a treasure. This doesn’t mean they are not worthy of our time, but an evidence of how far we’ve actually slipped in the quality of our reading material.
I loved listening to my mom read books like these in different voices to us when we were little. She told me she learned it from her mother, my Nana. She could make us laugh just by putting the emPHASis on the wrong sylLABle. She used an itsy-bitsy, squeaky mouse voice and a hysterical, booming giant voice. She tried to do all the voices. Sometime it was horrid, but always it made us feel engaged and very loved.
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This lovely, powerful story is something I thought you and your family would enjoy. You may have seen it before, but it’s worth sharing again. …
Of all the Mommy-War debates, I can think of few that are as emotionally charged as the war over vaccines. Does that make me want to avoid the topic? Only like a nuclear missile!
Unfortunately, (like a nuclear missile) that also makes this topic so important. My goal is not to rehash the hundreds of arguments for or against vaccines. Rather my goal is to answer a simple question: As Christian mothers, how should we approach this sensitive and volatile topic personally, among friends and strangers, and in our social media testimony?…
