Faith in Kids

We’re all in new territory – churches are closed, schools are closing, the supermarket aisles are empty and we’re all trying to work out what to do. What does homeworking, homeschooling, home church with the whole family even look like? Will we all sit in neat rows on laptops? What…

It’s taken me quite some time to get the train track ready. The figure of 8 and suspension bridge are engineering masterpieces; even the play figures waiting at the station look impressed! The creativity corner is oozing with options – fresh paper on the easel, paint dabbers standing to …

A friend was recently walking with her seven-year-old son, Billy. He asked her how we can be sure that Jesus is real if we can’t see him. She told him about the eyewitnesses. Luke starts his Gospel with a great introduction for just such a purpose: Many have tried to give a history of the thin…

Has anyone seen the car keys? I know I had them yesterday … Depending on the age of the children in the house, the ‘obvious’ places to look may be down the back of the sofa, in a dressing-up handbag, buried in the garden, or underneath a sprawling heap of backpacks, lunchboxes &am…

I always try harder with my firstborn’s birthday. It’s some kind of personal psychological healing from all the trauma of the day he was born. Like with most parenting choices it has nothing to do with him and everything to do with me. Along came birthday number six. Now being an enthusi…

Summer clothes? Check. Suncream? Check. Buckets and spades? Check. Address of a good local church? You what?! If attending church isn’t already one of your family holiday habits, here are 6 reasons why you might want to give it a try. God is still worth worshipping. Even when we are away from …

We were on a beach. The sun was shining. It was one of those rare holiday experiences when we felt like we were getting it right. We were together. No one was screaming, crying, fighting or on their way to A&E. It was the sort of moment people put on Facebook. So when my son pointed to the big r…

Holiday envy is like every other kind of envy - kitchen envy, career envy, wardrobe envy - only it tends to be particularly acute during the summer months when “everyone” is having an amazing holiday – apart from you. In part 1 we acknowledged that no parent is ever entirely &…

You’re on a campsite, late at night, miles from anywhere, after a particularly fractious journey. The eldest has just stormed off in a huff because of the lack of Wi-Fi. The 7 year-old can’t sleep because ‘it doesn’t smell right’ and the baby is inconsolable because, so…

Can we do that? Can I try that? Can I go with them? Can I have a go at that, this once? On holiday strange things happen. New opportunities. Chance meetings. Bizarre moments. Confusing decisions. Odd questions. We were in a Devon village during their annual festival. It was coming to the end of the …