Six Lies Social Media Tells Your Grandkids
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Imagine being a parent of young children once more. How would you feel if you learned that every time you left your kids with a certain babysitter, that babysitter was brainwashing your children with stuff completely contrary to what you were trying to teach them?...
Smartphone Conversations for Grandparents
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Do you ever grow tired of the constant intrusion of smartphones in everyday life? Have dinner time conversations with your grandchildren been reduced to tweeting and texting activity while face-to-face human interactions almost come to a halt? Few grandparents have...
How to Make Sure You Don’t Drown in Shallow Water
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Have you ever known someone recognized for doing so many good things throughout their life, only to end up in late life doing something so very foolish that it discredits everything they’ve done before? As grandparents, that’s the last thing we want to happen in our...
Four Ways to Prepare Your Grandchildren for Adulthood
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Intentionality, more than proximity, is the key to impacting our grandchildren and helping them grow in their thinking and understanding as they grow from childhood to adulthood. God gave us, parents and grandparents, the primary responsibility for that task. It is...
What Does it Mean to be a Gospel Shaped Grandparent?
Courageous Grandparenting Blog After a speaking session about intentional grandparenting, a grandmother approached me to say how much she appreciated my emphasis on intentionality. “I’ve decided to be intentional about getting my granddaughter to come to church with me. If I can just get her to...
What’s On Your Watchlist? – Part 3
Courageous Grandparenting Blog There’s an old story of two Englishmen who traveled to Africa to explore the wonders of the interiors of Africa. They hired native tribesmen to serve as their guides and set out on their expedition. Thoroughly engrossed in the adventure and wonders of Africa, they...
What’s on Your Watchlist? (Part 2)
Courageous Grandparenting Blog #2: Your Mind “Ideas have consequences… bad ideas have victims.” -John Stonestreet We started the year putting our focus on a personal “watch-yourself-closely” watchlist. As image bearers of our Creator, we must watch our heart, our mind, and our soul lest we fall...
What’s in Your Watchlist? Part 1
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Your Heart We can’t fake it, but we must fight for it. We can’t manufacture it, but we must work at it. If we neglect it, the consequences are devastating. What is it? The condition of our soul. By now, most everyone who will make a New Year’s resolution has made it....
