Posts from 2023

I’m convinced that most families, at least in the Austin suburbs, struggle with being TOO busy rather than not busy enough. Do your kids really need another activity? Do they really need a new toy or game system to entertain them? We may be the most entertained and distracted generation in the history of earth. Is it good for us? Here is a parenting tip: let them be bored. When my kids are bored, the creativity starts to flow. When…

At the Journey, we welcome and enjoy having kids with us in the worship services. Kids can learn the songs, sing along, engage in prayer, and even glean truths from the sermons. I love it when kids answer my rhetorical questions out loud! In 2024, we will have Together Services on the first Sunday of each month. This means kids aged kindergarten and up will join us on those Sundays (and I hope you often bring kids in on other…

We all love our kids. We make sacrifices for them all the time. But have we gone too far? Is it possible we are sacrificing TOO much for them? Are your gas tank and your emotional tank near empty, because you’re pouring yourself out day after day? I’ve been in Texas for over two years now. I’m not sure if this is a Texas thing, a suburb thing, or an American thing, but my observation is that many parents’ lives (aside…

None of us want our kids to grow up with a low self-esteem. Having a healthy view of self is important for living a good life, and we need to emphasize this with our kids. But have we gone too far? Some of the statistics are alarming: “In 2013, Time magazine reported that ‘the incidence of narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that’s 65 or older, according to…