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The tiny gifts of St. Nick
St. Nicholas usually comes to our house. He has found us as we’ve moved. He found us after I grew up and moved out of my parents’ house. He always came to us there. St. Nicholas finds us. And when he does, he puts stuff in our shoes. — When I was getting older, but…
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Parents: Crying It Out Is Not Best
As parents, we have all been there. There has never been a child that G-d has given us that hasn’t cried for what feels like a little too long or at seemingly just the wrong time. All parents have felt this stress. And every parent has lost it. I remember a specific instance in which…
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4 keys to engaging children in church
At a lecture in Atlanta recently, the Rev. Sam Portaro, author of Brightest and Best points out that “Children are actually written into Scripture.” They weren’t supposed to be seen. They were property. But Jesus spoke to them, healed them, accepted their donations, and told His disciples to be like them. We never take that last…
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Missed communication in misbehavior
Parents struggle from the moment their babies are born to understand them. We listen intently to hear the different cries–the I’m-hungry cry; the I-want-you-to-hold-me cry; the I-refuse-to-admit-I’m-tired cry; and the far too common I-just-want-my-way cry. The discerning parent learns to tell the difference in these cries. Each has a differed tone and different facial expressions.…