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Typical Peer Program Teaches Skills and Acceptance

An elementary school in Indiana has started an interesting program. It’s called the Typical Peer Program. It puts a couple of students who do not have special needs into a classroom with students who have special needs. The “typical” peers model behavior, and everyone learns to accept others who are different from themselves. J.B. Stephens Elementary School, in Greenfield, Indiana, has started an innovative preschool program. It is called the Typical Peer Program. I have not heard of any other schools who are doing this. The program is specifically directed to helping children who have special needs. At the start … Continue reading →

Marrying Someone of Another Faith

Yesterday we looked at the trend of people becoming involved or marrying those from other faith. What causes people to enter into a relationship with someone of another faith? Sometimes it can be they are not sure enough in the own faith of what they believe and why. If they were they would possibly not be so ready to become involved with someone from outside their faith. Or maybe they see it as an opportunity to convert the other person to their faith? Maybe they need to consider would I be ready to convert? If I won’t, why should they? … Continue reading →

Drop From the Marriage Vocabulary

There are some things you never want to say to your spouse, because they are the type of things that can have serious effects. Three little words that should be dropped from the marriage vocabulary are, ‘never,’ ‘always,’ and ‘only.’ Imagine how your spouse feels if you tell them, ‘you never say the right things,’ or ‘you never do what I want.’ Now I’m sure if you thought about it long enough you’d realize what you mean is right at this moment you are not saying or doing what I want you to. If you tell them they never say … Continue reading →

You Know Your Spouse Loves You When…

Elizabeth Barrett Browning once started off a sonnet with what has perhaps become a bit of a cliched saying: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Have you ever tried to count the ways you love your spouse? Once upon a blog I wrote about something Wayne did for me that showed me he loved me, and then Jade asked: But what do you do to show him? So I answered that with another blog. While that was sort of counting the ways he loves me and I love him, lately my heart’s been waxing romantic about … Continue reading →

Enrichment Tip: Identify and Accept His Faults

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My latest series of articles has focused on tips that women can carry out to help enhance their relationship with their husbands. In the first article I discussed the importance of taking the guess work out your needs by speaking out about what it is that is on your mind. The next article focused on the importance of being supportive about your man taking a periodic guys’ night out. In this article I am directing the conversation toward his faults. Everyone has faults. No matter how much you love your mate; eventually (usually found after you have lived together for … Continue reading →

The Importance of Acceptance in Single Parenting

When I talk to people who are relatively new to single parenting, one of the things I often hear is “I never really expected I would be doing this alone!” This has led me to a personal philosophy that anyone who considers parenthood should consider whether or not they are able to be single parents, but that is another article altogether. What I have learned from talking with other single parents is that “acceptance” is the first step on the road to becoming a great and present single parent. Sure, some of us choose single parenting as a first choice, … Continue reading →

Acceptance Comes Before Change

Resistance and Denial can be a single parent’s best friends–at least in the beginning. After a while, we realize that all this fighting and resisting we are doing, and all the energy we put into denial may be better spent elsewhere. At some point, the day comes when we realize that acceptance is really the first step before we can make room for real change. When I say “acceptance” I do not mean giving up and giving in. Acceptance is really about ceasing to resist reality and admitting that what is, is. Think of it this way, if you get … Continue reading →

Accepting Our Children’s Pain

As a parent, I know that there is nothing more difficult and upsetting to me than when my children experience pain. I want to stop it; do anything I can to keep them from suffering and feeling pain and it can be incredibly hard to be present, listen, and be compassionate without getting angry and wanting to jump into revenge mode. In order to be able to be truly available for our children, however, we may need to be fully present and accept their pain first. It can be especially hard when we have done something that has caused our … Continue reading →

When You Can’t Change a Situation

There will be trials in your life when you feel that you cannot change anything, and that you must simply struggle through it. While you may not be able to control the circumstances around you, you can control your attitude and they way you react to your situation. During these trials you should remember to look to the Lord for hope, guidance and strength. It makes a big difference to look at a situation with hope. Hope helps you to find the strength to continue to struggle and it brings you peace during your darkest moments. Finding and focusing on … Continue reading →

Are We Really Trying to Change Them?

It is easy to think of our relationship with our child as being completely different and separate from any of our other relationships. After all, for many of us it is more intense, more unconditional, and longer-lasting than any other relationship we might have had. In reality, however, we can apply the same rules that we learn and use in our other relationships–marriages, partnerships, coworkers, friends, and family–to our interactions with our children. One that can seem a little fuzzy is whether “parenting” and guiding our children to adulthood means that we are really trying to change them? One of … Continue reading →