What is an attachment disorder? . . . a condition in which individuals have difficulty forming loving, lasting, intimate relationships. Though attachment disorders vary in severity, individuals lack the ability to show genuine affection to others. They typically fail to develop a conscience and do not learn how to trust. Symptoms of attachment disorder Superficially…
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Hurricane John
by Marcia Alice Mitchell Fierce wind bowed the tree tops and buffeted the vines that grew against our house. I snuggled in our warm living room and watched Hurricane Carol destroy the familiar and redesign our street to a new beauty. At age eleven I loved storms, but this was my first hurricane. Before…
How Autism Changed My Life
A mother helps others by helping her son. by Laura Corby as told to Genetta Adair I’m not the same person I was eight years ago. That’s when my son with autism, Chad, was born. Although my husband, Wayne, and I had already experienced an autism spectrum disorder with our firstborn, Lexi, we hadn’t…
Homeschooling: Getting Started
by Terri White In recent years, an “old original” has made a phenomenal comeback. Home schooling, an educational movement with roots that date to colonial times, remains legal in every state today. Many great leaders, such as John Quincy Adams, William Penn, Thomas Edison, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, General George Patton, and General…
Homeschooling: Recommended Reading
Books Ballman, Ray. The How and Why of Home Schooling. Crossway Books. 1987. Fugate, J. Richard. What the Bible Says About . . . Child Training. Aletheia Publishers. 1980. Leman, Dr. Kevin. Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours. Dell Publishers. 1984. Moore, Dr. Raymond. Home Grown Kids. Word Publishers. 1981. Moore, Dr. Raymond. Home School…
God’s List
Surrendering to divine priorities. by Crystal Kupper Please be wrong, I begged the pregnancy test. It’s too early! It was my twenty-second birthday, and this was the last present I wanted. Panic flooded my mind: What about the graduate school application I had been completing minutes earlier? What would my husband think? Was I…
Help for Dysfunctional Families
by Dale Lawson “I don’t want to influence my children in religion. I want them to make up their own minds.” This philosophy prevails in our society — to our undoing. Families guided by it rapidly slip into dysfunction, because parental example greatly impacts children and their choices, whether intentionally or not. Negative attitudes,…
Doubt and Belief: Finding the Road Again
Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At least he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather’d strength. He would not make his judgment blind. He faced the specters of the mind And laid them; thus he came…
Adjusting to Pregnancy
Don’t deny your feelings, but realize they are just that — feelings, not eternal reality. The way you feel right now about this pregnancy (angry at yourself or husband, scared, flustered, etc.) is OK, so don’t feel guilty about what you feel. Yet realize in six months or a year, your feelings most likely will be…
Blended Families: Handle With Care Saying
The hidden pitfalls in yours, mine, and ours. by Maxine Marsolini Many might say Charlie and I were adventurous that wintry weekend, twenty-four years ago. Others might believe the snowstorm we braved was a precursor to the stormy life we would discover. But we had a goal: We were eloping — and not even…