Category: Parenting Teenagers

• Junior Year

  

  Dear Kori Jane, You are 16. A high school junior. In fact, you’ve just started the second semester of your junior year. We were warned junior year would be brutal, and right about now you’d be ready to throw in the towel. You are no doubt just as sleep deprived, over committed, under nourished, and…

  Laura Spaulding

  January 18, 2020

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Unity in Diversity, Words to Kori Jane

  childhood, Children, college, Education, Faith, Family, grace, high school, joy, junior year, Parenting, stress, teenagers, theatre kids

• Teenagers!?

  

  Dear Lacey, About six weeks ago you turned nine years old! Almost double digits! For months I had been planning to sit down on the 30th of September and write you a lovely birthday letter about how precious and unique God has made you. I even started it at one point but never got past…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 28, 2019

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  butterflys, Children, Family, grace, growing up, high school, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, puberty, siblings, sisters, teenagers, time