(Editor’s note: please welcome Ellen with some solid suggestions we can all follow to create better habits in our families. Thanks, Ellen!) For parents with young children, one of the most challenging tasks is to inculcate good habits in them. By nature, children are quick learners, but given their adventurousness and impetuosity, creating and nurturing [...]

It’s late in the night here at Earnest Parenting. The gifts are wrapped and under the tree, stockings are stuffed, and I’ve even got half the laundry finished. The boys are all sound asleep, although I bet they wake us up bright and early. The level of excitement before bedtime a few hours ago was [...]

It’s just that the schedule lately has been full of well, stuff to do. Has summer been just screaming by this year? I feel like it’s screaming by. It’s crazy really….this whole Time Spinning Faster Every Year thing. My boys are going to be done growing up and out of the house before I know [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! I got a surprise a little early, would you like to see it? Well, ha ha….you don’t really have a choice. Hubby and the boys treated me to these beauties and I just had to share a pic. C’mon back tomorrow and I’ll tell you a [...]

Hubby had some dental work this afternoon and came home with a very sore mouth. The boys were just delighted to see him so early in the day; he’s been working late a lot and they miss him. We were still working on lessons, so Hubby flopped on the couch while the younger boys and [...]

A dear dear friend just let me know that her son died this morning. He had been fighting cancer for years, and today lost that battle. To my knowledge, Jeremy was 25 years old. That’s too young to die. photo credit: zhaonameloc If you’re the praying type, could you remember my friend for a while? [...]