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As we close out the year spending time with our families and gearing up for a whole new year on Orange Parents, we thought we would re-post a few of our top blog entries of 2011.

LOSING YOUR MARBLES
by Reggie Joiner
I got a message from a friend named David Wills a few months ago. It was… [read more]

As we close out the year spending time with our families and gearing up for a whole new year on Orange Parents, we thought we would re-post a few of our top blog entries of 2011. We wanted you to get a chance to catch up on what you might have missed out on. Here’s… [read more]

As we close out the year spending time with our families and gearing up for a whole new year on Orange Parents, we thought we would re-post a few of our top blog entries of 2011. The following article was written by Carey Nieuwhof
GRACE AND DISCIPLINE
No one would pretend that raising kids is easy.  It’s… [read more]

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to bake a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas Eve and decorate it with the kids. I usually try to make a multi-layer round cake, and when the kids were young I would dye the layers red and green. The taller the better! The kids would decorate it… [read more]

by Mike Jeffries
I’m writing this post from the Latin American nation of Nicaragua where, over the past few days, we’ve had an interesting international experiment in global generosity from the perspective of five young children.
Three families decided one of the best Christmas gifts would be to take their kids to work among other children in… [read more]

Christmas appeals to my five senses.
Think about it.
All you have to do is…
Play a few melodies of Bing Crosby.
Burn a candle that smells like evergreen.
String some multi-colored lights on any object in your yard.
Add a little peppermint to your Starbucks.
Cut some paper and arrange a silk bow on a box.
Bake a gingerbread cookie in the… [read more]

Hi. My name is Carey, and I’m greedy. (This is the point where you all say, “Hi Carey.”)
Gosh, I hate to say it. I mean no one goes around and says they’re greedy, right? We might think other people are greedy (it’s just so easy to spot the sins of others, even from a distance),… [read more]

Christmas is a bit nerve-wracking, isn’t it? I mean the stakes are high, and you’ve accumulated a few bad experiences along the way to remind you that things don’t always go as planned.
Despite our best intentions, Christmas is a high stress season with so much at stake. To raise the tension a little further, this… [read more]

Last week I sat in a training class for our early childhood team. The lady leading the training was fabulous.
She has been a teacher and a training consultant in the public school system for the last 40 years. She is also the mother of three grown children. In the middle of her training she dropped… [read more]