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

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Aug 27, 2015 | Parenting 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...

Reader Question: Should You Wait Until You Finish College for a Relationship?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 8, 2014 | Marriage, Preparing for Marriage

Every Monday I like to post a Reader Question and take a stab at answering it. Today’s comes from a college-aged friend of my oldest daughter Rebecca: Should you wait until you finish college to have a relationship–or to marry? This is a question...

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...