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Warning! This is not your accustomed cute and charming Mother’s Day meditation.
At the age of fifty-eight, with two luminous daughters successfully launched into adulthood, and two charming grand-daughters navigating the exciting terrain of early childhood and a third only days away, it feels as if it might be safe to assume that my major parenting blunders are behind me.
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Inevitably there will be a lot of goo about “love” circulating during this annual celebration of romance. So, perhaps it is worth taking a more hard-nosed look at the nature of love as we prepare to indulge in this annual glorification of affairs of the heart.
A group of mostly middle-agish, highly educated, pretty privileged, white guys, may not be the ideal context in which to study Colossians 3:18.
Dr. Stuart Crisp FRCPCH FRACP is consultant paediatrician, a the Orange Base Hospital, in Orange, Australia. In addition to his duties at Orange Base Hospital, Dr. Crisp writes for the “NetDoctor” at: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/
Fifteen years ago, my mother-in-law was an active, vibrant, independent 80-year-old when she was suddenly struck down by a devastating stroke.
We are trying to give their parents a brief respite from the unrelenting onslaught of nearly two weeks of flu, now infecting the entire family – hacking cough, achy body, fever, nausea, headache, congestion, respiratory difficulty, sleepless nights.
At the age of fifty-eight, with two luminous daughters successfully launched into adulthood, and two charming grand-daughters navigating the exciting terrain of early childhood and a third on the way, it feels as if it might be safe to assume that my major parenting blunders are behind me. To read the rest of this post see: http://blogs.timescolonist.com/2013/01/18/parenting-blunders/
A young mum I greatly admire sent me an article by Allison Tate that has recently received an amazing response on the Huffington Post blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-tate/mom-pictures-with-kids_b_1926073.html
The August edition of “The Sun” magazine has a long and extremely stimulating interview with Gabor Maté. The whole interview is available in the print edition of “The Sun”. Selections can be viewed at http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/440/what_ails_us
