by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 28, 2014 | attitude, God's love, grandparenting, parenting, pruned, tough love, unconditional love
When Should You Start Disciplining Your Child? All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. —Hebrews 12:11 (NASB)...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 20, 2014 | grandparenting, love, parenting, tough love
I’m pleased to welcome a guest post from Lynn Donovan. I trust you’ll find it a blessing. And check out her book: Not Alone. The Home With The Open Door – Powerful ParentingIt started with a pound of hamburger. Yep, I discovered a door of trust...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Dec 2, 2013 | Christmas, joy, parenting, peace
Here’s an article I wrote many years ago that explained our Advent Project that I created. Hope you can use it. If you’d like me to email you the complete project with ideas for all of the “gifts,” email me at Kathyspeak AT aol DOT com. Our...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Nov 13, 2013 | abuse, book review, faith, faithfulness, grandparenting, love, parenting, unconditional love
Read below for an opportunity to win this book! How would you like to have 22 children? How would you like to have adopted most of them even though the majority have significant health challenges, including serious special needs? Sounds daunting, doesn’t it?...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Sep 23, 2013 | grandparenting, holiness, parenting, values
Last week, I saw something that bugged me. I was shopping in a lingerie store, and I saw a teenaged boy, maybe 16 years old, take two bras to the door of one of the fitting rooms. The door opened and a woman I have to assume was his mother because of her age, reached...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 5, 2013 | book review, caring, parenting
(You can win a free copy of this book. Read below.) Do you have a “prodigal”? Jesus gave us the parable of The Prodigal Son so most of us know what a prodigal is: a person who has left the faith or rejected in some way the beliefs or ideas they were...