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// April 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Fathering, Life

I have done a lot of hiking and biking over the last several months.  Last weekend I took the entire family through some of the most beautiful hiking in our area.  I learned several things from this little walk through the woods.  We walked through a deep gorge carved in the rock by millions of [...]

N.A.M (09) Homeschooling

// November 6th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Adoption, National Adoption Month, Parenting

We recently listen to an old Focus on the Family series on parenting and homeschooling.  Where Dr. Dobson was interviewing Lisa Whelchel, the author of Creative Correction and actress that played Blair on on the 1980′s sitcom Facts of Life.  In the interview she talked about her reason for homeschooling, not all the auxillary reasons [...]

N.A.M (09) The Art of Play…

// November 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // Adoption, National Adoption Month, Parenting

Play seems so natural, so second nature.  We often comment how; “When we were kids (fill in the blank).”  We weren’t inhibited with lack of creativity.  We played in the woods, climbed trees, rode bikes to burger king by ourselves.  Were the days really that much safer?  Were we just more acutely aware? or Were [...]

N.A.M (09) The Challenges…

// November 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // Adoption, National Adoption Month, Parenting

Yesterday, I wrote about the realities of adopting older children.  Today, I want to write about the added challenge of adopting multiple children at once. -2 Challenges of multiple child adoption!- To compound the challenges of older children, adopting more than 1 child presents it’s own set of challenges and benefits.  Being school age and [...]

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