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10 Ways to Support a Back-to-School Husband!

by Sheila Gregoire | Aug 29, 2017 | communication, spending time together

Is your husband going back to school this year? Many of us are in the throes of back to school season with our kids: packing lunches, buying new notebooks and pencils, decorating lockers. But for some of us, it’s not just the kids heading back. Some of us have...

How We Handled Money, Paying for College, and Vacations with Our Kids

by Sheila Gregoire | Jul 8, 2016 | financial management, teenagers

If you’re hoping and praying your kids go to college, how are you planning for college to be paid for? About a month ago I was out in British Columbia celebrating some family birthdays when my cousin-in-law said something interesting. He said, “Nobody ever...

When Your Job As a Momma is Done (Almost!)

by Sheila Gregoire | Aug 27, 2015 | prayer, teenagers

Next Monday we load up the last of Katie’s things, help the piano movers steady the piano in the truck, and head out on the highway to drop her off at university. My job as a mom is done. My youngest child is leaving home. I know I am always a mom; my older...

Has the Christian Purity Culture Gone Overboard?

by Sheila Gregoire | May 9, 2014 | Faith, intimacy

Sheila is a columnist for Faith Today magazine, Canada’s premier evangelical magazine, which publishes six times a year. Here’s her column for May on the Christian purity culture. What is the Christian purity culture? Four Duggar girls–teens from the...

Is It Time to Close Those Purse Strings?

by Sheila Gregoire | Sep 6, 2013 | Parenting, responsibility, teenagers

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. This week’s column talks about money and how we raise our kids to financial independence. One of the hardest things about sending my daughter off to...

Declaring War on Work

by Sheila Gregoire | May 31, 2013 | culture, purpose, responsibility

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. This week’s column was more centered around Ontario, where I live, and so I thought I’d rerun this column from two years ago, before most of you...