Posts Tagged raising kids

camp

i attended camp every summer of my life from the age of six until after i graduated from college. at least three weeks of every summer. after freshman year at Houghton, it was 8. 8 weeks. as a tiny person, i went because my parents ran the teen camps, and i attended children’s camp on […]

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failed.

about a year ago, after realizing the depths to which a father can sink, my then-14-year-old daughter blamed God.  for everything. everything bad that ever happened in her life, every question she could come up with that flew in the face of everything she had been taught for 14 years, every single, solitary questionable thing. […]

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rant.

i believe that we are raising a generation of weenies. that’s right. weenies. and i don’t mean the cute little ones you call “pigs in a blanket” and wrap up in tiny crescent rolls, or slather in nasty barbecue in your crock pot for holiday gatherings (yuck.). i mean our kids are wimps, folks. wussies. […]

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