We didn't really know what we were getting into when we put our five-year-old on a swim team. But we were too deep into it when we started hearing things like, "Warm up starts at 6:30am!" and "Every parent needs to volunteer!" This, of course, would all have been manageable stuff if our oldest ...
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The Day I Realized that Kindness Mattered more than Accomplishment in my Kid
We had practiced all week. And I was realizing how fantastic my three-year-old was at memorization. It made me want to stretch and challenge him to memorize more. So we did, two verses instead of the usual one. We showed up for his Wednesday evening "Knight School" at church where I stay with him ...