Are You Serving Fresh Fruit?
It was a beautiful summer day for my son’s 11th birthday, not the southern sweating-and-sweltering we have way too often. We actually celebrated the night…
Children
Find posts about Children on MomLife Today. These articles for moms cover topics on everything from childhood to ages and stages of development, faith topics for kids and more.
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Are You In a Fog?
Recently I went for a walk in the woods. It was one of those days when the temperature hovered at 32 degrees. Thick mist had…
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Seeing Clearly
I stood at the counter holding up a box of crackers. “Can you read this?” I asked my 8-year-old daughter, an excellent reader, who was…
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When a Broken Furnace Doesn’t Seem Like Such a Big Deal
It was a bitterly cold Kansas morning. And our usually snug and warm home felt freezing because the heater had stopped working in the middle…
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Dogs, the Hulk, and Romance
I got up this morning determined to write about romance today because it’s February, and that’s what February is about, right? I didn’t even make it from…
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Surprising Lessons from Jury Duty: God Makes a Way to be a Mom
I must confess to a not-so-generous reaction when I was summoned for jury duty recently. Sadly, my thought process was not, “Oh, good, I have…
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Who Are You Really?
I’m honored to be able to go to a local high school once a month to talk with teen moms. When I did this recently,…
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Where is Your Focus?
The other day, eldest and I were discussing her day at school. She mentioned a friend of hers who was feeling sad and lonely. The…
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You’ve Got the Wrong Mom
“You’ve got the wrong Buzz! You’ve got the wrong Buzz! YOU’VE – GOT – THE – WRONG – BUZZ!” I picture Buzz Lightyear in Toy…
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Trash Talking
I once had a stepmom say to me, “You know, every time I go to my stepson’s baseball game the biological mom makes it very…
