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How To Enhance Your Family Dinners With More Fun And Better Conversation

One of the signs your family is disintegrating is the decline in the quantity and quality of family dinners – where fun, food and conversation converge around a table. And yet, in just a few decades, something like 1 in 2 families in the Western world seldom have a meal together. And those that still do…

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3 Selfish Reasons To Have Kids

Are you thinking about whether you will have kids? Or maybe of having or adopting another one? Maybe you’re a parent in the trenches of two-year-old tantrums or tween eye rolls and you’re struggling to see the positive side… Since having our own kids, I’ve come to realize how many people think parenting is an unfortunate or…

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Parenting And The Myth Of Happiness

Tonight was one of those family dinners that just doesn’t go according to plan. “Mom! What is wrong with these carrots? Don’t you care about my food!?” “I don’t like chicken anymore.” “Dad! Charlie just poured his juice all over his food!” “You’re sitting on my chair! Off. My. Chair!!!” As I poured juice and peas down…

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Two Secrets of Parenting

Last week I got skunked. But all was not lost. I discovered ‘the two secrets of parenting’. Skunked refers to the surfer’s frustration of carving out a rare gap in your super-busy, responsibility-laden week in the hope of finding some glassy waves, only to find unsurfable drivel. I wasn’t skunked alone. A buddy (of 25 years) was at…

Tag: chores, unconditional-love

8 Invaluable Life-lessons To Teach Our Kids (And To Live By Yourself)

I believe that, for boys especially but girls too, the best classroom is outdoor adventure. Adventures serve up many teachable moments. That’s because they are a microcosm of life – the kinds of things that go wrong or come up mid-adventure are the kinds of things that do so in the decades of life. Adventures also…

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How to Overcome the Discontent that is Ruining Your Life. (Pt 2)

How to Overcome the Discontent that is Ruining Your Life. (Pt 2). These days, being discontent isn’t something we’re ashamed of – it’s something we kind of aspire to. Seemingly unaware of its devastating consequences, we allow it to live and grow in us – enriched by a never-ending stream of social media and clever marketing…

Tag: contentment, finances

How Discontent Ruins Your Life – And 4 Ways To Beat It. (Pt 1)

How Discontent Ruins Your Life – And 4 Ways To Beat It. (Pt 1) Why is it that more now than ever before, we buy things we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we hardly like? Before I get into this, can I admit something? I wish I had more money than I do. Like almost…

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10 Ways To Slash Your Grocery Bill And Still Eat Healthy

10 Ways To Slash Your Grocery Bill And Still Eat Healthy. Feeding our family takes a massive bite out of Julie’s and my monthly income. Next to our mortgage, it is our largest expense by some way. It also seems to us that food takes a larger bite every year – not just because our…

Tag: finances, food, health

15 Ways To Save You A Heap Of Cash Every Month.

15 Ways To Save You A Heap of Cash Every Month. This post might cost you a few minutes to read, but it could save you a lot of money. In my previous post, I emphasized why we should spend less than we earn. The more money we don’t spend, the less stress we will…

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Why Our Kids Need Our Time More Than They Need Our Money Or To Achieve.

Thinking money and achievement is worth more than time hurts your family, soul and kids. So thinks a wise man I spoke to this morning. When last did you sit at the feet of a sage? I got to do that this morning. It was unplanned. But the wisdom I received has the potency to…

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