How to Nurture Healthy Screen Habits for Your Family

by Joanna Sawatsky | Mar 11, 2020 | Doing Life Together, Parenting Small Children

Thanks so much to Minno for sponsoring this post! When my girls were small, they woke up at an ungodly hour of the morning every day. Keith was working long hours as a medical resident and our apartment was tiny. So the girls watched Babe each morning (aka, “Pig...

PODCAST: Recovering Your Sex Life After a Baby

by Rebecca Lindenbach | Feb 20, 2020 | Making Sex Feel Good, Parenting Small Children, Podcasts

It’s time for a new episode of the To Love, Honor and Vacuum podcast! I hope you all will listen, but if you don’t have time, I’ll have some links and rabbit trails below so you can read all you want as well! And consider this podcast...

Our Soul Ties Series: Do You Have Unhealthy Emotional Bonds with Your Kids?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 27, 2019 | Family, Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers

Are you becoming codependent with your children? Do you have unhealthy emotional bonds with your parents? This month we’ve been talking about the concept of “soul ties”, which was preached a lot in Christian circles in the 1980s and 1990s, but which...

Which Internet Filter Should You Use to Protect Your Kids from Porn? Qostodio vs. Covenant Eyes

by Joanna Sawatsky | Oct 25, 2019 | Parenting Small Children, Parenting Teenagers, Pornography

Porn is not harmless. Social media can be a minefield. And the internet can suck productive time away and cause us to miss out on important parts of our lives. That’s why I believe parents have to get a handle on their kids’ internet usage, and why I...

Watching Your Baby Go Through Labour is Hard–But Then There’s This

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 24, 2019 | Parenting Small Children

I have always said that Katie was my worst labour. With Rebecca, I was in labour for 10 hours. We got to the hospital too early, and they made me walk around the cafeteria for a few hours. I remember I spent most of that time in the bathroom at Women’s College...

PODCAST: We Have a Newborn. He Wants an XBox. Plus More Reader Questions!

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 10, 2019 | Parenting Small Children, Podcasts

Does sex have to die when life gets busy? We’re in the middle of a series this month talking about the different stages of sex in marriage, and we launched it last week with the “Figuring Things Out” stage. This week we’re moving on to the next...

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