My two-year-old, Samuel, is going through 'the phase'. If you're a parent, or have been around kids very much, you know what I'm talking about. It's not 'the terrible twos', which I don't think exist. It's 'a phase', which he'll repeat when he's about five and then...

While working in an inner city preschool in Charlotte, NC, I had the fantastic opportunity to watch kids from different ethnicities, backgrounds, and language opportunities grow and develop in a rich environment of new experiences. At this particular time I was about...

I've always enjoyed 'dress up'. You know, 'pretending' to be someone else for a while. I think that's one of the reasons kids enjoy Halloween or Harvest parties so much during this time of year. My oldest child is nine, and starting to 'phase out' of the whole costume...

I had one paragraph left to write; just one, and the report would be complete. Five minutes is all it would take, but five minutes is all a busy two year old needs to be inventive. I typed the first sentence and heard a little voice from the bathroom behind...

Okay, so you're a mom. Amazing! Wonderful! A true miracle. Now what?Well sometimes I think God's love lessons really started hitting home when I became a mom. I have five children....five children in nine years. Some mothers have more and some have less, but there is...