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18 05, 2025

Teaching How to Clean the Heart: Forgiveness

By |2025-05-01T11:58:39-06:00May 18th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Everyone has been or will be wronged. They will be slightly offended or grievously injured and with every degree and variation in between. And the worst of the injuries will be from intimates. It is part of the human condition - set up that way where imperfect people with imperfect information with limited time, limited resources, and limited maturity act out, make choices, and cause harm. Some do it deliberately, but mostly they do it [...]

11 05, 2025

Supercharging Your Parenting for Summer

By |2025-04-29T10:58:45-06:00May 11th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Parenting is a year-round process, yet summer brings a unique opportunity to amplify our parenting efforts. The relaxed pace of the season, with its sunshine and family activities, provides an ideal backdrop for “supercharging” our parenting initiatives while enjoying the fun of the season together. We’ve always been proponents of goal setting and planning, as evidenced in our Tuesday Letters. That’s why we’ve crafted a Summertime Checklist—a guide to help you prepare or revisit parenting strategies [...]

4 05, 2025

Raising Boys in a Toxic World

By |2025-04-28T10:50:16-06:00May 4th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Guidelines from the American Psychological Association states, “traditional masculinity – marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression – is, on the whole, harmful”. Essentially a ‘boys will be boys’ mentality is toxic. Creating a world where bullying and sexual predation is unacceptable is worthy of everyone’s time and attention. Certainly, parents must sort through the implications of how to raise up boys into the next generation of men. So, what are we to think? Are [...]

27 04, 2025

Graduation Season: Preschool to High School

By |2025-04-25T10:34:11-06:00April 27th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

May is a significant month for graduations at all educational levels, from preschool and kindergarten to elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. It marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another in life. This time can be filled with excitement, emotion, joy, and even a bit of anxiety for both the graduates and their parents. With our boys having graduated from college, we are reminded of what a meaningful milestone [...]

20 04, 2025

Show Initiative to Build a Community of Friends

By |2025-04-11T13:37:43-06:00April 20th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting, Relationship|

What kind of impact does having a longstanding group of friends have on a growing family? Enormous. Therefore, you should be intentional and show initiative in building a community of like-minded friends. It is surprising the level of influence that your community of friends can have on your life, your style of living, your parenting, the quality of your marriage and its potential longevity, the behavior of your children, your health, your sex life, your [...]

13 04, 2025

Smiling: The Underrated Superpower for Your Mind and Body

By |2025-04-09T15:09:24-06:00April 13th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Among all the essential lessons we teach our kids about greeting people—such as making eye contact, using an appropriate tone of voice, shaking hands correctly, and communicating with teachers, family members, and friends—we must not forget to teach them to smile. Too often, we encounter customer service representatives, store clerks, waitstaff, and others who fail to smile while interacting with us; sometimes, they barely make eye contact. This raises the question: why has this automatic [...]

6 04, 2025

Reconciling with Parents (-in Law)

By |2025-03-27T14:07:53-06:00April 6th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Relationship|

When Dave was in his late 30’s, he and his dad had a major blow up. Whatever it was about, it shook both men to their core and resulted in a break in communication that lasted for over a year. The silence was deafening. Dave mentioned this rift to an older gentleman friend who wisely said, “You’re the only one who can mend it. And you should.” That was it. He said no more. That [...]

30 03, 2025

Declaring the ‘Serenity Prayer’ to your Kids

By |2025-03-24T13:42:12-06:00March 30th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr These are complex and troubled times. Some families have been hit hard, some less so, and some even harder. If we look at economics alone, money is like oxygen, how do people react when deprived of it for any length of time? It’s completely understandable [...]

23 03, 2025

The Power of Self-Control and Delayed Gratification

By |2025-03-24T08:08:20-06:00March 23rd, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

What if you discovered that the key predictor of your children’s success later in life comes down to one specific skill? This skill, if developed well, could lead to improved social abilities, better stress management, and greater academic achievement. Additionally, this skill has the potential to reduce substance abuse, lower obesity levels, and enhance success across all areas of life. Training and reinforcing the skill of delaying gratification leads to the development of self-control and [...]

16 03, 2025

A Lifted Spirit – Family Standard

By |2025-03-12T11:16:15-06:00March 16th, 2025|Family Culture, Letters, Parenting|

Happiness is a lifted spirit, an optimism in outlook. To live a life where happiness is a regular companion is to be faithful and persistent, willing to persevere through life’s challenges. A lifted Spirit develops emotional reserves to maintain goodwill for family and friends where you can respond and not react. A lifted spirit is a skill that can be taught and should be a family character trait, not so much where you absolutely must [...]

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