Recent Articles by Tiffany Gee Lewis
Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:22 pm MDT
My oldest son is a pre-teen, and I realize this is where it begins, this slow separation, the way kids break away in small ways to test their independence.
Published: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 4:12 pm MDT
Ask a child what he or she really wants from her parents, and you may be surprised by the answer.
Published: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 4:34 pm MDT
The scriptures say the Sabbath should be a day of rest. As a young mother trying to juggle four toddlers on a church pew, followed by afternoons alone with the children while my husband made visits, the Sabbath...
Published: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 1:52 pm MDT
If you’re like me, you carry in the back of your mind an image of the ideal mother. Maybe she keeps the house impeccably clean, or bakes bread twice a week. She has a successful career. She juggles, with ...
Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 3:54 pm MDT
I struggle with how much of the world to share with my children. Do they need to know about the warfare across the globe, about slums with raw sewage, about human trafficking?
Published: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 3:55 pm MDT
The family stories we tell our children have the power to shape their resilience and outlook for the future.
Published: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:00 pm MDT
Our job as Christians is to recognize our potential without ever feeling entitled.
Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:35 pm MDT
The modern-day parent is becoming more adept at stripping brilliance away from his or her children. We are actually dumbing down our children in their most formative years.
Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:48 pm MST
It’s this time of year, this chasm time between February and March, when winter begins to seem endless. The sleds are cracking. Our arsenal of winter mittens is depleted to dangerously low numbers.And I...
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 1:47 pm MST
My first child, that poor soul, got the young mother in me. The one completely untrained, unskilled, still much of a child herself, not old enough to rent a car but old enough to be the soul caretaker of a help...