Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

parenting

  • The book had the most evocative title. It really seemed like it was written for me. Parenting Without Regret. Such a powerful statement in three words. And I felt the subtitle in my gut: “Raising Kids With Purpose, Not Perfection”. Deep and poignant. But when I picked up the book, I thought: This is like…

  • For my first Goose, I took it all in. I filled my days with sessions. I filled myself with the Spirit. I made friends and met many whose ministries I admire. I came expecting community and still being surprised at how amazing it is to actually find it. For my second Goose, I brought my…

  •   Violence doesn’t teach them to respect you. It teaches them the lengths you will go to have your way.   We expect violence to communicate the complex thoughts, the most sophisticated of desires, the very contents of our minds, but it doesn’t make them mind readers. It doesn’t communicate what we want to communicate.…

  • We have got to cut it out. From the Dad who shot his daughter’s laptop to the Mom who made her son stand on a street corner with a sandwich board sign. May as well be a scarlet letter. These methods don’t work. [bctt tweet=”‘I didn’t know what else to do!’” nofollow=”yes”] And we know…

  • Broken

    The mangled parts of a red stroller strewn across grass and concrete a tire in the middle of the road and I pray to God no one was in it.

  • When we paused the movie, my 7 year-old got in her pajamas without prompting. In that moment, I thought about how I actually miss the fights. The bedtime fights. The I don’t want to put on my pajamas I hate brushing teeth And Please can’t I stay up later Fights No fights. She just does…