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Yay for Mistakes! Part 6 | Mistaking Our Worth

Yay for Mistakes! Part 6 | Mistaking Our Worth

  My red-haired friend from Grad school calls me. The one who is a writing sister and who encouraged me…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 5 | Quieting a Myth of Mistakes

Yay for Mistakes! Part 5 | Quieting a Myth of Mistakes

My son sat next to me, sadness radiating from him. “What’s wrong?’ I ask. “I hate it when people get…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 4 | How to Let Our Children Make Mistakes and Fail

Yay for Mistakes! Part 4 | How to Let Our Children Make Mistakes and Fail

  Kids need to make mistakes. And for us parents, this is hard. It was the first overnight birthday party…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 3, Responding to Our Children’s Mistakes

Yay for Mistakes! Part 3, Responding to Our Children’s Mistakes

Many of us are afraid of making mistakes because we associate making mistakes with something bad. Something to be avoided…
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Twinkling Mom

Twinkling Mom

I am guest posting at Kindred Mom today. Twinkling Mom Christian stamps his foot hard against the tile floor, imitating…
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Mary and Christmas

Mary and Christmas

Christmas gets closer and I think of Mary. The Mother of Jesus. When the angel appeared to Mary, did she…
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