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How puppies can help you understand little kids in divorced homes

About three years ago, we got a cute, little puppy. She was from a rescue organization, and she was not quite twelve weeks when we brought her home. She was a just a little mutt but still cute nonetheless. She was all white, fluffy, and just the sweetest, little thing. Oh, how I fell in love with her. She wasn’t without trials, Read more…

Posted: July 11th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Co-parenting, Divorce Issues, Emotions, Single Parents

Question of the week: Does your children’s ministry mirror your community? WARNING – you may not like these numbers!

Recently I got a note from a friend of mine who wanted to share some numbers with me. This friend lives is in a typical middle-class neighborhood and teaches at the local public school. I don’t want to cause any problems for her with her job, so I’m not going to post exactly where she lives or the school district where she teachers. Read more…

Posted: May 1st, 2017 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Modern families, Question of the week, Research, Single Parents, Step and blended families

Question of the week: How do I keep from being discouraged when ministering to single parent families?

“It seems like we just get a single parent settled in their new lifestyle and then all of a sudden “boom” and everything falls apart. Their kids get out of control Their finances erupt into a crisis mode The ex shows up on the scene and makes all kinds of empty promises and they fall for it only to show up on our Read more…

Posted: January 5th, 2015 ˑ 6 Comments
Filled under: Question of the week, Single Parents

Family Sculpturing and the Balloon Demonstration: visualizing with impact (Group KidMin 2013 Conference demos)

Kidmin and children’s ministers want a lot of hands on, visual and role-play kind of presentations. Two of my favorite demonstrations in to use in teaching about the child of divorce and used at the Group KidMin conference were Family sculpturing The balloon stress demo Family Sculpturing In the family sculpturing we have participants role-play different parts. We have a Child Mother Father Read more…

Posted: October 23rd, 2013 ˑ 4 Comments
Filled under: Accept the Challenge, Conferences, Discipline, Divorce Issues, Single Parents