This week, I tripped over a whole new corner of the Internet – Ambient Noise websites! Having friends with babies, I knew that you could find white noise online, but I had no idea just how vast and varied the selection of available background sounds now is. Pining for social interaction? Stick…
“Mummy loves you. Daddy loves you. God loves you most of all.” I can’t remember exactly when I stopped saying it, but for the first few years of our daughters‘ lives, those were the last words they heard each night as I kissed them and tucked them up in bed. (Or, at least, th…
It’s a familiar scene: the anxious, shuffling child, the lack of eye contact, the missing item, the reluctance, the embarrassment, then – finally - the confession. “The boy at school laughed at my …. coat / bike / water bottle / lunch box / trainers / hairstyle / face.&rdquo…
I have a photo I show whenever I am asked to speak to parents. It is me leading a family devotion. I am sitting in the middle of the sofa with my Bible open. My eldest is curled over one arm of the sofa, her back to me, her bottom directed towards the Bible. My middle child has his face embedded in …
During lockdown my mum has found recipes that require the most basic of ingredients and yet produce incredible results. I have no idea how she does it. Over the years our family Bible studies have been a little like that. God took a recently-converted, Biblically-illiterate single mum and some reluc…
Immanuel.
The Bible makes the mega claim that the baby Mary gave birth to, the baby Joseph named ‘Jesus’, is in fact Immanuel – ‘God with us’.
Why is that great?
Jesus is God with us.
It seems a fairly simple statement, but those words are as stuffed with meaning as I …
‘Dad, don’t do a funny voice.’ That’s what one of my children sometimes says when I change my voice for the characters when reading a bedtime story. Perhaps I’m a bit silly and over the top when I do it. I’m trying to be fun but it doesn’t always work!
When …
What is your greatest delight and satisfaction? Do your children know? Have they heard you delighting yourself in the LORD - giving voice to your heart’s greatest love through singing? Even if you can’t carry a tune, we as parents are called to model this area of our faith.
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The children are bickering, supper is burning, and your patience is thinning. How in the world do you bring prayer into this?
Prayer may be a parent’s most potent resource, yet also the most underutilised. We forget to pray. We overthink it. Perhaps prayer intimidates us because we feel we don…
I don’t want to take up your time. It’s the summer. Let’s make this quick!
Firstly, the essentials. Have you got a Bible in the house for each of your children? We recommend:
Under 5s: The Beginners Bible - it has stood the test of time, and apparently there are even some new pictures.
6-11s: The In…
