Teaching Our Children to Fail Well
Last year both of my children came home with test papers labeled with a 67 in bold red ink. The competitive perfectionist inside me slipped quietly into panic mode, no, scratch that, she ran screaming into panic mode. Why in this world would intelligent children who have shown themselves to be capable of all As suddenly bring home this? Let me back up to say last school year was a bit of a mess. Six weeks into the school year we sold our house and moved in with my parents for
It was just another day, until it wasn't
We talk about big life events because they remind us who we are and where we've been. In the Bible, the people of Isreal took stones from the Jordan River and placed them on the other side as a reminder to themselves and to their future generations of the protection God had given to them. We have stories too. Past generations tell about where they were during the bombing of Pearl Harbor or the shooting of President Kennedy and we tell the story of where we were when the plane
