Actively listening to your child(ren)

  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,  a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,  or the smallest act of caring,  all of which have the potential to turn a life around.     Leo Buscaglia       Communicating with our children can be a very difficult task… [Continue Reading]

Single Parenting: 4 simple tips for survival

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For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared… [Continue Reading]

Eye Candy

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by Jennie P. Martin I’m not exactly known for my desserts. It’s not like anyone at a church potluck has ever requested a recipe; let’s just put it that way. Maybe that’s part of the reason I was so excited to discover almond bark. Perhaps the reason I had gone so long without noticing it… [Continue Reading]

Grasping

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      “Her name is Lisa,” the young mother barked at the nurse. Rachel yanked the baby carrier up from the floor and stormed from the waiting room, back to see the doctor. Rachel fell into a chair and we waited mechanically for the nurse to take Lisa’s vital signs. This was a teenager who… [Continue Reading]