When my oldest was two, I set up a playdate with a new friend and her daughter. As we pushed our girls on the swings, she asked: “Where does your little girl go to school?” My daughter was two. Living in an affluent area, my husband and I had noticed that many children started private school by age two. Still, we felt four year-old preschool or kindergarten was a perfectly appropriate time to...
Have you ever considered building your family the way God builds his? Adoption is not only a response to the needs of children who don’t have a family, but also a profound picture of God’s love for all the children he has adopted into his family. In Chosen: Building Your Family the Way God Builds His, Andrew Hopper, an adoptive father of a special needs child, presents a compelling, holistic...
Often when I go and speak with parents on this topic of identity formation, I’ll have dads and moms come up to me afterward and say something like this: “That’s why we’ve got to get back to the good ‘ole days when kids obeyed their parents and did what they were told.” Makes sense, right? Everything in our society would be better if our kids just listened and obeyed us. If they took their...
Because the media doesn’t report the spread of the good news across town and around the globe, it’s easy for Christians to be unaware of the incredible work God is actively doing today. The same God who turned the world upside down two thousand years ago is still changing lives and communities today.The gospel continues to spread and transform lives across cultures and contexts today, just as it...
After decades of working with young people, I assumed I understood their world. I was probably wrong about how much the culture had shifted beneath my feet. In a fast-changing society, an adult’s experience does not always keep pace with the youth, even if you are a parent, a teacher, or someone who works closely with children. Recently, I asked my Gen Alpha daughter why she thought adults so...
