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3 Tight-ropes Your Family Needs During Covid-19

3 Tight-ropes Your Family Needs During Covid-19. Whether Level-4 or Level-3, family life is something different to anything we have known. In my last post, I described the 6 struggles so many families are facing during Covid-quarantine. Today, I get on the solution-side of the conversation. As I surveyed 30 other mainly suburban families and…

Tag: Covid-19, lockdown

Quarantine Crazy: The 6 Struggles Most Families Are Facing

Quarantine Crazy: The 6 Struggles Most Families Are Facing. For as long as I have not seen or smelt the sea (only 10 km’s away), I have found myself spending almost all my time with just six other people – my wife Julie, and our five kids, aged 5-11. Like thousands of other lock-down or…

Tag: Covid-19, lockdown

Home Bound and Still Happy – Here’s How

Home Bound and Still Happy – Here’s How A billion people are now ordered to be home bound. It is likely Julie and I will be stuck at home with 5 kids for a month. Just a few days in, we are not faring well: More than usual, I have verbally lashed out at my…

Tag: Home-bound

What Women Want

What Women Want Valentine’s Day upon us, if you’re a guy, don’t tell your partner you read this – just blow them away by improving your game. I am guessing you already know that it’s a case of happy wife, happy life! If you’re a woman, why not boldly send this link to your man?…

Tag: marriage

What Men Want

What Men Want Valentines Day, just around the corner, is not just a chance for a romantic dinner, it’s a reminder to married couples to celebrate and deepen their sacred bond. That’s why Julie and I have dusted off two of our favourite marriage books by the authors Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn. Today (“What men…

Tag: marriage, masculinity

Allan Mullins Memorial Drive

Click here to download the video of and all media related to Allan’s memorial. Click here for Terran’s tribute post about Allan.

How to Listen When Your Kids Speak So They Listen When You Speak

I can’t believe I am writing an article on listening! By nature I suck at it. So says my wife, and she should know. But in the last few years I have grasped what a liability that is – not just as a husband, but especially now that I am a dad! So I have…

Tag: acknowledge-feelings, listening, responsive-listening

Stupid Stuff Couples Argue About

In this post I let co-blogger, bed-sharer, super-babe, mega-talented writer and mother-of-my-kids Julie Williams take me down good and proper. Julie is a fantastic spouse – if the main job of a spouse is to bring your partner down to earth, while loving him still. Over to Julie… What we argue about most…

Tag: humour

250 Dinner Questions for Your Family.

The quality of family dinner conversations is one of the great litmus tests for the relational health of a family. As I shared in a previous post, I am a big believer in prioritizing dinners together and shooting for engaging conversation that involves everyone, including tons of fun. That said, in my house, only every…

Tag: dinner-questions

5 Ways To Help Your Child Feel Your Love

There are 5 ways to help children feel your love, but one or two will work best on your child. Before the drought, there was a corner of my garden that was dying, despite the presence of my irrigation system. The solution was as simple as changing the angle of a nearby irrigation outlet in…

Tag: love-languages

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