by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jul 2, 2012 | Family, Parenting Teenagers
Proverbs 22:6 says: Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. What does that verse mean? Sometimes we read it totally in a moral framework: if we train him in the way he SHOULD go, then he will learn right and wrong,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 18, 2011 | Family
Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s, on the harm we may be doing by praising kids’ innate abilities rather than praising effort. There’s an awesome scene during the movie The...