Tag: identity

5 Life Questions Teenagers Need Help Answering

Parenting is an awesome responsibility; awesome in the fact that it is joyful and rewarding, and, awesome in the fact that it is an enormous undertaking. It is beautiful, breath-taking, frightening, intimidating, overwhelming, terrifying and wonderful all at the same time. What can I say, it’s awesome! My kids...

My Vanity Fast and the 4 deceptions of beauty: Part 2

Read part 1 here A couple weeks ago I was chatting with my youngest daughter on our sun porch. “Emily is so much prettier than I am,” she said. Emily, My oldest, is sixteen and curvy. Jessica is skinny—she takes after her father. No matter what I say to Jessica, she can’t...