Archive for November, 2005
Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse than this weekend….
It was a holiday we had been looking forward to for ages. After the worry of sick parents and children and hectic schedules all round, we simply needed some time away to be together and do some fun stuff as a family. So we […]
I’ll be away from the computer for the next ten days or so. Promise to answer your emails when I return!
MG
Perhaps better suited to his book Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph spends chapter eight of Manhood talking about how we can better prepare boys for the transition to manhood by getting their school environment right. In this short chapter, Biddulph suggests seven areas that would be a good starting point for school reform:
1. Male teachers available […]
While I think the acts of terror I’ve seen on TV are horrible and my heart goes out to the victims and their families, I can’t help but wonder about the priorities of our government with this latest anti-terror campaign. I don’t claim to know all the details or sides to the story, but this […]
This quote is from an article by Denise McKinney on Christian people getting involved in the foster care of young people. It appears in the latest edition of YouthWorker journal.
I’ve heard people say that they couldn’t bear to form a strong attachment to a child and then have to abruptly say goodbye. But I believe […]
Just to follow up from my last post on Manhood I thought I’d post three resources that I’ve found quite powerful in challenging me about what it means to be a Dad. They’re probably not what you would expect, but then again, either is being a Dad…
Rohald Dahl’s Danny the Champion of the World.
I read […]
The church where I first became a pastor was in a very wealthy area of Melbourne. Families had large houses, numerous nice cars, all the latest gadgets, the right clothes ad the best education money could buy. Yet, the young people I interacted with in the local school were just as isolated and lonely as […]
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