by Janel Breitenstein | May 22, 2019 | challenging, Culture, current events, kids, Parenting, tweens and teens
So I confess. I’m still totally #oneofthose moms of teen boys and a preteen girl, asking the boys to hold open the door for females, or help carry heavy stuff. Maybe I’ve watched Kate and Leopold too many times? Or maybe I just think there’s...
by Janel Breitenstein | May 14, 2019 | Africa
Today, on the other side of the world, a woman woke up having no idea she was anything to shout about. Considering the way he treated her, the way her boss looks at her, all she’s ashamed of, and the money she doesn’t have for a bank account (if she had...
by Janel Breitenstein | May 14, 2019 | challenging, closeness and intimacy, closeness; intimacy, difficulty, discouragement, enduring love, fear, love, Marriage, relationships, romance, sex, time together
So I wrote you recently how a podcast had opened my eyes to all those Hollywood writers (whose techniques, as a writer, I thought I was studying, but who suck me in just the same). If there’s any possible time when my husband doesn’t respond to me like a...
by Janel Breitenstein | May 8, 2019 | challenging, children, Culture, current events, Family, Ideas, kids, Parenting, time management, time together
Anyone else feel like they’re constantly fighting the tide of tech in their homes? No, I don’t want my kids to arrive at college like a bat out of you-know-where. I want them to know how to responsibly handle tech as a tool for growth and entertainment....
by Janel Breitenstein | May 3, 2019 | anger, children, emotion, encouragement, enduring love, failure, fear, kids, Parenting, practical, shame, tweens and teens
My thirteen-year-old and I sat across a sticky table from each other at the local donut shop. If I remember right, he had this maple-frosted thing that was the size of a small planet, totally at my permission (unusual for my Sugar Nazi tendencies). His tears had dried...
