5 Evidences of Our Broken-Family Culture
These 5 facts do make retirement planning different for women than for men, but a healthy culture of lasting marriages and caring families mitigate each of them.
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Rediscovering the Forgotten Parent
The crisis of weakened fatherhood was driven home to me a few years ago in reading Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx when he related the realization by Rev. Joe Ehrmann that all the problems of the inner city that he was dealing with in his ministry tied back to a common thread of missing or ineffective fathers in the households. The nature of this problem is such that it will take many years to reverse the causes and effects of a culture that has long dismissed, diminished, and even undermined the role of fatherhood.
A Holistic Approach to Building Families
A proper understanding of family must recognize that families span generations and cannot be fully understood and supported independent of the individuals they are made of and the communities in which they live. Because the family is the fundamental unit of society and because societies can't be stronger than the families within them, I am seeking to find and share information on organizations and tools to help build families, their communities, and the individuals within them and I invite others to join me in this endeavor.
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
When all attempts at progress either backfire or have no discernible effect its time to seek further insight and experience. Such has been the case for us recently as we have found it impossible with only the expertise of ourselves…
Welcome Noah
After weeks of Laura feeling like she was ready to be done with this pregnancy (despite the fact that we hoped it would last a little longer to get a few more things done around the house) we got the…
Great Grandpa
On Sunday we attended a baby blessing for our newest niece, Katherine. While we were there Laura and I were sitting next to my grandfather. I was very interested to watch as Enoch suddenly decided to climb over to his…
A Look at the Future
It’s always fun for me to write welcome posts when we are expecting a new arrival. We’ve done this enough times now that as we prepare for number six there would seem to be nothing new to say. That might…
Be Where You Ought To Be
photo credit: orkydorky Last week we had a family reunion at Bear Lake. It was great for the kids to see their cousins and for everyone to have fun on the water and off. In planning for the trip the…
Addressing the Symptoms
photo credit: sigma. As if to prove the point I made in my last post about passing out casts and crutches, the Seattle Post Intelligencer this week published an essay from Brad Soliday, a teacher in eastern Washington, where he…
Welcome Enoch
Almost 3 years to the day after his older brother arrived we got a new arrival today. Stats and story follow. Name: Enoch Andrew Miller Arrived: 11:15 am 11/2/2009 Weight: 7 lbs. 5 oz. Length: 20 1/2 inches We had…