by Janel Breitenstein | Feb 2, 2021 | children, humility, Ideas, kids, spiritual life skills/spiritual disciplines
Note from Janel: I’m trying this new series on for size–on raising emotionally-healthy kids. We’ll start with something that would make our nation look markedly different if it defined us, our leaders: Humility. No, this is not because I actually...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jan 22, 2021 | anger, children, Church, community, compassion, Culture, current events, kids, listening, poverty, relationships
“I just don’t understand how…” I heard it again this week from someone else. This is after hearing it more times than I could count with someone else’s conflict. Sure, there are times when this phrase fits in an argument. I could’ve...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jan 15, 2021 | challenging, children, kids, Parenting, relationships, time alone with God, tweens and teens
Anyone else out there go through these seasons when you’re struggling to find hope around one of your kids? Gnawing on this recently, I realized I’ve gone through seasons of this with each of my kids. Some more than others, sure. But there was that year...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jan 8, 2021 | conflict, Culture, current events, faith, Family, fear, kids, Parenting, prayer
My eleven-year-old put into words what likely more than one American has been thinking about the tragic and troubling events of January 6. “2021 was supposed to be better than 2020! We’re only six days in!” And then there was my 16-year-old’s...
by Janel Breitenstein | Dec 31, 2020 | children, Discussion Questions, faith, Family, fear, free download, helping others, Holidays; Occasions, kids, love, Parenting, prayer, Questions to take your relationships deeper, time alone with God
While living in Uganda, my language acquisition developed to an equivalent of that drunken-sailor lurch of a new toddler. That is, my ability to speak resembled lurching, grinning, and occasionally falling on my rear. And of course just because you can speak a...
