So ….. I am really writing on this subject??! Our kids have been struggling with this lately, so it is kind of comical for me to appear like the expert on this subject! A couple of ideas that HAVE been working this week because we have really been cracking down on bickering: If anyone has an unkind voice toward a sibling, I have been asking them to bring be a bar of soap and stick their tongue out.  One swi

Have I told ya’ll about the book, ThePower of Crying Out?  I cry out to the Lord almost every morning in the shower.  I mean I pray in a loud voice, begging God to intervene in situations.  It really works!! The shower muffles my voice so the kids don’t think I’m dying (ha!  :O).  You can also cry out into a pillow  or in a forest by yourself or something. The Bible says that “the weap

Be a missionary! On the mission field we had some great experiences.  We traveled, saw many countries, ministered as a family, and learned how to be best friends with each other. There really were no peers really because Japanese kids went to cram school in the evenings and had public school on Saturdays.  Our kids didn’t notice that they were being deprived of peers because they had each other to play with