How You can Help Eliminate Teen Pregnancy Two questions are on our minds. If a teen finds herself pregnant are the parents to blame? Or should we point our fingers at the teen’s own bad choices? We ask because the issue hits home. Parents, want to help eliminate #teenpregnancy? Take some tips from @TriciaGoyer: Click To… [Continue Reading]
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4 Ways to Find Freedom from Past Mistakes
Do you need freedom from past mistakes? I know I did. Read on for 4 Ways I found freedom from past mistakes: Find Freedom from Past Mistakes It’s not often you get a chance to re-write your story, but I did just that when I updated my book Life Interrupted: The Scoop On Being a… [Continue Reading]
Finding Friendship at Teen MOPS (Plus a Giveaway!)
I attended my first MOPS group at my home church in Kalispell, Montana, in 1998. I was a mom of three young kids, and I loved hanging out with other women, getting to know them, and hearing wonderful speakers. OK, the crafts were good too. My second year of MOPS I was asked to speak…. [Continue Reading]
Coming Soon: October Baby
I had a chance to watch October Baby with my family and I have to say I loved the movie! It’s about a young woman who discovers that she was adopted–but more than that, that she survived an abortion attempt by her birth mother. It’s an impacting, moving story. It’s told well, and they did… [Continue Reading]
A Book By Me
Check out this great book project from Deb Bowen designed to teach children about the Holocaust! Deb Bowen began to network with teachers, writing experts and ordinary students asking them to do something extraordinary. She asked children to write and illustrate the life story of a Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust. The results? Beyond her expectations…“I… [Continue Reading]
It still feels like a gift to me.
Growing up I never thought, “Someday I’d like to travel.” I loved reading. I loved visiting new places in books. But the idea of me traveling to another country was, well, foreign to me. I grew up in Northern California, so going to Oregon was common. I stayed around the same 150 mile radius my… [Continue Reading]
MTV’s Teen Mom
The MTV show Teen Mom (spun off from 16 and Pregnant) is the hottest thing out there. You know it’s big when these teen parents grace the majority of the magazine covers at check out stands. Recently, during a radio interview I was asked what I thought about the show. Of course I was happen… [Continue Reading]