Why I’m at Home
A little while ago I started a firestorm when I wrote about planning my daughter’s future–and how we should consider a career choice that would make it easier to stay home with kids, should she choose...
View ArticleReader Question: My Husband Thinks the Kids Are All My Job
Every weekend I like to post a question someone sends in and let you readers have a go at it. This week’s question comes from a homemaker, who wants a better balance in the division of labor with her...
View ArticleHow to Make Money as a SAHM
A while back we had a long conversation on this blog about the cost of working. If you’ve got little kids, we asked, and you have to pay for childcare, then does working outside the home even...
View ArticleYou Are Enough for Your Little Ones
When my children were babies we were living in downtown Toronto. My husband was a resident at the Hospital for Sick Children, and we were surrounded by high powered individuals. All of the other...
View ArticleHome Alone America
Does it matter that most kids today are home alone for a time–and don’t have parents home to supervise? My blogging friend Terry wrote a series of posts a while back on why she came to see the world...
View Article10 Ways to Banish the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues
Are the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues inevitable? I have always been a stay at home mom, but if you judge by the comments of many, I have the personality of a pea. If you’re a stay at home parent, you know...
View ArticleWhen Being a Mom, or Just Plain Running Your Home, Overwhelms You
So many of us find homemaking–just plain doing life at home–overwhelming. We spend out lives putting out fires, cleaning up messes, and we wonder if we’re even getting ahead. If life is always chaotic,...
View ArticleReader question: Do Stay at Home Moms Have To Do All The Housework?
When it comes to splitting household chores, does the wife really have to do all the housework if she stays at home? Every Monday I like to try to answer a Reader Question, and today I’ve got two quite...
View ArticleHow to Make Money as a SAHM
A while back we had a long conversation on this blog about the cost of working. If you’ve got little kids, we asked, and you have to pay for childcare, then does working outside the home even...
View ArticleYou Are Enough for Your Little Ones
When my children were babies we were living in downtown Toronto. My husband was a resident at the Hospital for Sick Children, and we were surrounded by high powered individuals. All of the other...
View ArticleWhy I’m at Home: Deciding to Be a Stay at Home Mom
A little while ago I started a firestorm when I wrote about planning my daughter’s future–and how we should consider a career choice that would make deciding to be a stay at home mom easier–if that was...
View ArticleHome Alone America
Does it matter that most kids today are home alone for a time–and don’t have parents home to supervise? My blogging friend Terry wrote a series of posts a while back on why she came to see the world...
View ArticleReader Question: My Husband Thinks the Kids Are All My Job
Every weekend I like to post a question someone sends in and let you readers have a go at it. This week’s question comes from a homemaker, who wants a better balance in the division of labor with her...
View Article10 Ways to Banish the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues
Are the Stay-at-Home Mom Blues inevitable? I have always been a stay at home mom, but if you judge by the comments of many, I have the personality of a pea. If you’re a stay at home parent, you know...
View ArticleWhen Being a Mom, or Just Plain Running Your Home, Overwhelms You
So many of us find homemaking–just plain doing life at home–overwhelming. We spend out lives putting out fires, cleaning up messes, and we wonder if we’re even getting ahead. If life is always chaotic,...
View ArticleReader question: Do Stay at Home Moms Have To Do All The Housework?
When it comes to splitting household chores, does the wife really have to do all the housework if she stays at home? Every Monday I like to try to answer a Reader Question, and today I’ve got two quite...
View ArticleYou Can’t Change the World. You Can Change Your Family.
I have been going through one of those weeks where I feel so depressed about the state of the world. I’ve been trying to cocoon, not pay attention to the news, not think about much of anything at all....
View ArticleHave We Made Motherhood Too Hard?
Does motherhood sound like the most exhausting job in the world? We’re gearing up for Rebecca to deliver really soon, so we’ve been thinking a lot as a family about modern motherhood lately. And at...
View ArticleWhat Women Believe about Stay-At-Home Dads–Despite What the Church Teaches
On the whole, women who attend church tend to believe, or are even more likely to believe, several key evangelical teachings about sex. It makes sense. If you invest in your church culture, your...
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