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It Takes a Certain Kind of Village to Raise the Spirits of a Parent
- Family, Featured, MomThink, Uncategorized
- July 24, 2025
Most people don’t fear children; instead, they fear the loneliness that will come when they have children. Parents give up a lot when they bring children into the world. Social interactions as a mom or dad lack spontaneity. A parent’s coming and going is limited by childcare options or the commotion of getting a baby
READ MOREIn his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy famously urged, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” That sentence shines with rhetorical beauty and balance, but might be more accurate by changing one word: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you
READ MOREIn a recent “New York Times” article titled, “Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back,” Rachel Drucker laments what she calls “a collective shift” in men, a “slow vanishing of presence.” So many single men, she writes, aren’t “sitting across from someone on a Saturday night, trying to connect.” Instead, they “have retreated from
READ MORE“My heart feels like it’s going to jump out of my chest!” Eric yelled out as he stopped short of the finish line. “What?” “My heart! It’s never felt like that before! That’s why I stopped!” We were running laps after his indoor baseball practice. I was frustrated with his sprints during conditioning at the
READ MORELots of parents these days feel swamped by the obligations of work and family. For many, it’s a balancing act in which all too often the tightrope breaks and chaos ensues. Work suddenly shifts into high-paced 12-hour days, and family life suffers. School with its academics and extracurricular activities eats up time spent at home.
READ MOREA few years ago, some friends of mine had their seventh child. At home. By themselves. No expert help. Things weren’t supposed to happen that way, but there was literally “no room at the inn” (hospital) when the time came for the baby to be born, and baby wasn’t about to be put on a
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