Articles on Attitudes

When our oldest was seven and our youngest was four, I started a new tradition for our family Christmas—a tradition of giving. It can be difficult for youngsters to realize that C (...)

Through a study done in the 1970s, we learned the single most determining factor in how to have a happy life.

Letter From a Wife Now I will convey to you the complications I seem to have with rearing my three children. I praise our Lord for a wonderful Christian home. But with the (...)

I realized again that when children are reared in an atmosphere of blessedness, you will never have to worry that they might drift from their moorings.

Just the other day, I heard an old mule trainer make one of the wisest statements about child training I have ever heard. He was not talking about children; he was talking about (...)

Don’t buy the line that brokenness or weakness is inherited personality. It is all in the kind of example you lay down and how you respond to them.

Eight-year-old Jeremiah was being impatient with his four-year-old sister, Penelope, and talking to her like she was stupid. I said, “Jeremiah, you are being impatient and rude to (...)

“Why is God allowing this to happen to ME?”

People ask me how I get my kids to eat veggies. Well, mostly they eat them because that is what I feed them!