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Parents Blog

Mar 22, 2019
3 min

Us

We don't get much of a winter, here in Texas. In fact, our Northern friends would laugh at our weakness, when it comes to "battling the c...

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Jayme Wood

Dec 14, 2018
2 min

Order, Change, and Peace

The holidays. No two words can create such fear and such frenzy. Do you remember, as kids, we had every form of "Christmas Countdown" we ...

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Jayme Wood

Nov 8, 2018
3 min

A Means to Transformation

Change. Something we either enthusiastically pursue, or something we avoid, with the tenacity of an experienced runner, chasing a finish ...

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Jayme Wood

Oct 17, 2018
2 min

Teaching Perspective

I recently read an opinion editorial, posing the question as to how to raise daughters, in what the writer called a "highly gender divisi...

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Jayme Wood

Jul 17, 2018
3 min

Care Before

I sat wondering, "if I walked out, would they even notice". A genuine feeling, I'm not privy to, very often. A sanguine, by nature, I'm n...

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Jayme Wood

Jul 4, 2018
2 min

Freedom

Happy 4th! Amid the hot dog cookouts, watermelon stains, and spraying yourself with water, to keep from burning alive, in the heat, I hop...

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Jayme Wood

Jun 25, 2018
3 min

The Dichotomy of Anonymity

I've mentioned several times before, when our Pure Truth team visits area schools, we give the students a venue to express their thoughts...

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Jayme Wood

Jun 4, 2018
4 min

What We Give

One of the many benefits of coordinating our Pure Truth program is getting feedback from the students, at the end of our two-week session...

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Jayme Wood

May 23, 2018
3 min

Merry Month of May

I've decided, Thomas Dekker must not have had children when he composed the poem, The Merry Month of May. Or, rather it's likely, in 1599...

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Jayme Wood

Apr 30, 2018
5 min

The Thing About Life

I hope I'm given the grace to wax personal, with this week's post. Not that how I see other areas of our lives, as parents, not affecting...

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Jayme Wood

Apr 25, 2018
3 min

Are They Safe?

Working with students, for the past twenty years, I have learned to not take some things for granted. Never let them think you know that ...

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Jayme Wood

Apr 20, 2018
4 min

Our Best

I watched my two daughters, scraggly hair and yogurt-stained faces, haphazardly wrap the dolls up in blankets, meant to stay clean and no...

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Jayme Wood

Apr 11, 2018
3 min

We're All Going Through

I literally wrote - deleted - rewrote - deleted again, the title to this post, all while losing it on my 20-month-old daughter, because s...

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Jayme Wood

Apr 3, 2018
3 min

Be Kind to Yourself

It's that time of the year. If your mental calendar has no recollection of a January to December schedule, instead, you live and function...

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Jayme Wood

Mar 26, 2018
3 min

Sounds of this Season

My favorite sense that we have been giving is the sense of smell. It is truly phenomenal to me that one whiff of something strong, tasty,...

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Jayme Wood

Jan 23, 2018
3 min

New

02.2018 Welcome. Welcome to a new relationship. Welcome to a new journey, for some, a rigorous continuation, for others. Welcome to the i...

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