Teen Finds Courage with Girls After Reading For Young Men Only
Staff member Cathy Kidd reads a letter from a teen guy who shares how reading For Young Men Only gave him courage to step out on a limb …
A Mother’s Day Encouragement – You’ll See Great Things In Time
I’m not a big gardener, but I grew up watching a vital truth unfold as my mother poured effort into her garden day after day, seeing no visible results at first, but knowing the results would come. I would get impatient staring at bare soil after hours spent tilling and planting and weeding, but she’d…
Know Your Audience
In graduate school, one of my favorite classes was Harvard Law School’s renowned Negotiations course. The professors – the co-authors of Getting to Yes – demonstrated that THE key to negotiation is to thoroughly understand the other party and their interests. Know your audience, get inside their head, understand both their interest and their perceptions…
What Men Need Most From the Woman They Love
While we women enjoy hearing our man tell us “I love you” often to reassure us of his love, men are not affected by hearing us say, “Honey, I respect you” but they do love to hear things like “I’m so proud of you” and “I trust you.” But signaling respect to our man goes…
Parents: A Word abount Instagram
This is an amazing article on Instagram that every parent of a middle schooler (or even high schooler) has to read. When Lysa TerKeurst and I wrote Made to Crave for Young Women, I began thinking a lot about what social media does to how kids think about themselves. This article nails it, and opens…
From a friend who was in the middle of the tragedy in Boston – and saw God was there
When something as horrific as the Boston Marathon bombing happens, it is so easy to ask, “God, where were you?” In pain, we wonder if the existence of the tragedy meant He was absent. And yet everything changes when you know He was there – and instead look for ways He was working. You notice…
