Habits of the Heart
By Jamie Roach Recently our two oldest kids, ages 28 and 31, asked my wife and me to take a trip with their two families. ...
Read moreConnecting With Your Disorganized Child
By Jamie Roach What do you do when your child clings to your leg when you drop them off at daycare and then take a ...
Read moreConnecting With Your Withdrawn Child
By Jamie Roach What do you notice shifting inside when your teenager once again refuses to share what they are feeling? How does it feel ...
Read moreConnecting With Your Anxious Child
By Jamie Roach You take your 6-year-old to school and they stick to your side like a piece of cling wrap. What do you feel? ...
Read moreWhy your kids don’t care what you know until they know you care
By Jamie Roach “That’s so unfair! You don’t even understand!” Maybe you’ve been on the receiving end of a similar outburst at your house when ...
Read moreShared Sorrows by the River
by Kurt Rietema “By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for ...
Read moreFasting as Feasting
How Lent can help us be more present to God, ourselves, and our kids By Jamie Roach For many of us, Lent is associated with ...
Read moreDo you harmonize?
By Jamie Roach We don’t know how to harmonize. We no longer know how to hold the tension between two different notes. We live in ...
Read moreRibbons, bows and ties that bind
By Kurt Rietema The tables overflowed with the excess of the season. Yellow dump trucks were primed for the abuse of new toddler drivers. Red ...
Read moreThe Power of Play
By Caroline Oas He walked in the room and stopped in his tracks. Toys lined the walls – dress-up, puppets, a kitchen, a tool bench, ...
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