The Resolute Woman

Category: children

  • What to do with a 13-year-old?

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    My friend, worried about her 13-year-old son who doesn’t want to go to school, asked me for advice. I hesitated, remembering some of the complicated conflicts and issues I had with my two children when they were teenagers. Finally, I said, “Let’s call Fayteen and see what she has to say.” Fayteen, too, remembered the…

  • Congratulations, Jay

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    I remember vividly how worried I was when my son Jay left for college. “How will he ever make it at college without his parents to remind him to return his library books and to wear a jacket when it’s cold?” I asked my husband Jerry. “He will do fine,” Jerry reassured me. “Anyway, he’s…

  • A simple question about children

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    I called the University of Tulsa because I had a question about graduation on May 5. In case you haven’t heard, my son Jay is graduating! And, he has been admitted to the MBA program at the University of Tulsa. And, he has been awarded a big scholarship. We’re ready to celebrate. “I’m a parent,”…

  • What’s required?

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    I explained to Mary Elizabeth, my college-student daughter, that her dad and I were going to a Sunday School brunch and then church services on Easter Sunday. “You’re welcome to come with us,” I told her. “Am I required to go?” she asked. I paused a moment and then smiled. “We would like for you…

  • I apologize

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    I was not the perfect mother of two children. I confess that , more than once, I was not calm and reasonable. I yelled. However, whenever I lost my temper, I always tried to apologize. From a very early age, my son Jay learned how to make me feel even more guilty than I was…

  • Moving day—and moving day again

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    I finished helping my son Jay move into his college apartment, which is on the second floor up a steep staircase, just in time to help my daughter Mary Elizabeth move into her new apartment, which is on the second floor up an even steeper staircase. Plus, Mary Elizabeth’s apartment is on the back side…

  • Sometimes it’s good to share the stress

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    I still remember the joys of parenting two lively young children—and also I remember a few stressful days.  My husband Jerry was traveling a great deal for business, and I was busy with my own small business, and we were trying to spend as much time as possible with Mary Elizabeth and Jay Anyone who…

  • May you grow in peace and wisdom

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    My two college students are getting ready to start classes at the end of August. I was remembering recently how I used to wake them, feed them breakfast and then drive them to Moss Haven Elementary School. Even though we tried our best to round up all the library books and homework the night before…

  • If it’s good advice, take it

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    My husband can’t resist giving a little advice to Jay, my 21-year-old son, a college student who is working and living at home this summer. Why is so much easier to notice when he is giving advice to Jay than it is to notice when I’m giving advice to Jay?  Why is it always easier…

  • Doing small things with love

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    My neighbor Linda has a wonderful success story. She started mentoring a boy from a poor family when he was in elementary school, continued to help him when he was in junior high and high school and watched him succeed in college. Primarily because of Linda’s urging, I volunteered to be a mentor at an…