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Archives / March 2012
March 24, 2012

What Your Parenting Destination

by John Salmon
“I start my vacation tomorrow, Frank!” “Great! Where are you going?” “I don’t know.” “When are you leaving?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how are you going to get there?” “I don’t know.”   Most people do not start their vacation without knowing the destination and mapping out a route to that destination. But, many people...
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Family Shepherds
           
March 17, 2012

Keep Your Child on the Path of Maturity

by John Salmon
I read an interesting fact about sheep recently. (You might wonder why I read anything about sheep…I really don’t know, it just happened.) At first, I did not believe what I read. Then, I heard the same fact again, this time on TV (Dirty Jobs). Intrigued, I began to investigate and discovered the fact was...
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Family Shepherds
                    
March 17, 2012

Growing the Family Pearls

by John Salmon
Have you ever experienced failure? Whether large or small, we have all experienced failures. Know what I think is harder than failing myself? Watching one of my family members experience failure. I hate to watch wave of disappointment, sorrow, and discouragement wash across their face. Even more, it hurts to hear them talk as though...
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Honor
              
March 10, 2012

5 Tips for the Dirtiest Job of Parenting

by John Salmon
I love to watch “Dirty Jobs” with Mike Rowe. “Dirty Jobs” gives us a glimpse of dirty jobs that most of us never knew existed and would avoid if possible, even though they contribute to our life. Parenting involves some dirty jobs—jobs like changing diapers after an “especially explosive episode” or cleaning a toddler after...
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Family Shepherds
                       
March 10, 2012

Conflict & Your Family Tree

by John Salmon
All families have arguments and disagreements; no surprise there. After all, families are made up of people…“fallen” people with different ideas, different viewpoints, different weaknesses, different temperaments, different tastes, even different priorities. This leads to disagreements and, on our worst days, maybe even yelling and name-calling. But did you know that those disagreements, arguments, and...
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Celebration    Grace
              
March 3, 2012

A Secret for Happy Family Relationships

by John Salmon
We all want to experience satisfying relationships in our home. We dream of a marriage filled with romance and intimacy. We strive to have parent-child relationships that remain close through childhood, adolescence, young adulthood and even into our “grandparenting” years. The question is: how can we make this happen? Northwestern University recently published a study...
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Grace    Honor