would you rather raise happy kids or whole kids? {sacred parenting series, part 2}

By Adriel on September 1, 2010 | 7 comments

“If we protect our children from all risk, challenge, and possible rejection, they likely will become developmentally stunted and will therefore remain immature. Out of love for our children, we must become strong enough spiritually to watch them hurt, to see them become disappointed, to hear their cries. Otherwise, we risk raising safe and [...]

living in the midst of holy teachers: our children

By Adriel on July 30, 2010 | 10 comments

 

“The process of parenting is one of the most spiritually formative journeys a man and a woman can ever undertake.” Gary L. Thomas (Sacred Parenting)

Although I am a new mom, and have only had my little boy on the “outside” for six months, I am already becoming so profoundly aware of this [...]