Has the Christian Purity Culture Gone Overboard?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 9, 2014 | Parenting Teenagers

What is the Christian purity culture? 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. Four Duggar girls–teens from the...

Is It Time to Close Those Purse Strings?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Sep 6, 2013 | Family, Parenting 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 Wray Gregoire | May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized

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...

The Elusive Summer Job

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 27, 2012 | Family, Parenting Teenagers

Every Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario and Saskatchewan. Here’s this week’s! It’s bad in Canada; but this situation is even worse in the United States, since university costs so much more there (no...

Occupy Whiners

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 12, 2011 | Uncategorized

Every Thursday and Friday my syndicated column appears in a bunch of newspapers in southeastern Ontario. Here’s this week’s! The Occupy Wall Street protesters are starting to really get to me. There they are, protesting corporations, while they film the...

High School and College Alternatives

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 11, 2011 | Parenting Teenagers

I’m not a big fan of “should”. I’ve always been one of those people who asked “why” rather than one of those people who gladly followed authority. If someone told me I had to do something, and I thought it was silly, I told them so....