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Read MoreAre your parenting batteries depleted?
Could you use some encouragement and inspiration to help you on the parenting journey? Would you like some tips and ideas for ways to have fun and to make memories with your child? Then you’re at the right place and we’re glad you’ve joined us! Eighteen years sounds like a long time—but you really have just 18 summers . . . and we want to help you make the most of them.
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Read MoreSo how did the Just 18 Summers® brand come about?
My pastor, Rev. Ralph Sexton, dedicated a baby at church one Sunday. As the parents walked off the platform, he said, “Don’t forget, you have just 18 summers. Take time to make some memories.” Whew, the poignancy of that slammed into me and I knew at that moment that God wanted me to do something with that thought.
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Read MoreWe want Just 18 Summers® to be about YOU.
We’d love to hear from you with your thoughts, ideas, and ways we can help you on the parenting journey.
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Read MorePlease help us spread the word about Just 18 Summers®!
Post about us on Facebook and Twitter. Tell your friends and family. Tell your pastors, family ministry leaders, and organizations about Just 18 Summers. Let’s encourage and strengthen families across our nation and the world!
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As the air turns cooler and school bells signal the start of a new year, parents around the nation are gearing up to help their children complete homework. There is perhaps nothing more frustrating than watching a child struggle under a heavy load of work or looking at your 4th grader and admitting that you can’t do this type of math either. The homework horrors hit the best of us. But, if you’re already living in agony about the...
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Fathering and Child Sponsorship
For a number of years, our family has sponsored a child from Haiti. There are numerous reasons we have chosen to do so, and many of them come from my desire to be a good father. What specifically has sponsorship taught me (and my children)? I’m privileged to have been born in a country that has so much, and yet there are so many countries that have so little. It’s easy for me to part with a small portion...
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Thirty days hath September; Make family memories you’ll always remember!
September drops hints of an impending new season. With autumn around the corner, many leaves begin to lose their lush green colors and the slight coolness in the air promises shades of gold and tangerine and crimson in the near future. Use all thirty days of September to create final summer memories, according to the calendar, and fresh fall ones, post-autumnal equinox. Make every day a holiday this month with the ones you love! Try a few of these...
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Ensuring Your Child’s School Safety
Summer vacation is a great time to let the hair down and relax in the joy of families and friends coming together for fun in the sun. But when June, July, and August vacations yield to the first day of school, reality sets in and parents are forced to realize that their children will spend more time in school than with them, meaning they relinquish some control. As moms and dads put kids back on the school bus at...
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Bless the Teachers
Open House just ended. Your child’s teacher is wiped out and sprawled on her sofa after meeting a bazillion parents and students—who think she will remember each of you and all the information on those sheets you placed in her hands. She was already tired from preparing each little detail to beautify the classroom your child will inhabit. Compilation of curriculum, handouts, materials, and gathering of supplies—many of them paid for with her own money—is done. Lesson plans are...
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One-on-One Time
We call it “One-Oh Time” in our house. My littlest coined the phrase a while back. In was her baby-talk way of asking me to spend “one-on-one time” with her. We laughed at the cute expression, but it stuck. Now we all use the term for our special mommy-and-me times. We started this practice of one-on-one time a few years ago during a particularly frustrating parenting season. My days were spent correcting and instructing, yet the negative behavior continued....
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Taking Prayer to School
It’s a time of preparation, purchasing new clothing and school supplies. But it’s also a time of preparation for life. And since God told us to bring up a child in the way he or she should go, praying and teaching them to pray will equip them for success in anything they undertake. So let’s do this. I’ll provide a list of items and associations, so that when we purchase or use these, we’re reminded to pray specific prayers...
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