Discipline, Studying God, Toddlers

a solid grip on depravity

Julie / February 22, 2011

One day, quite some months ago now, E  (who is two) responded to one of my reprimands with a violent, “But I don’t want to be good, I want to be BAD! I AM BAD!” Well, yes, yes you are, little one.  You don’t even know how bad you are.  Mommy’s bad, too.  It’s called sin. It’s called needing Jesus.…

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Recommendations, Studying God, Toddlers

Bible books and music

Julie / September 22, 2010

It turns out that it’s really difficult to find good Bibles / Bible books / devotionals for toddlers, especially ones that are reformed!  I just wanted to run through some of the ones we have found and are extremely happy with.  Notably, most of these are by the same author/publisher, which I think is more a sad commentary on what…

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Musings, Toddlers

He who answers.

Julie / September 20, 2010

I stumbled onto a post on Reddit last week where a dad was really struggling with how to teach his four-year-old about death.  She had just really begun to understand the concept, and now was understandably worried that she was going to die, that her parents were going to die, and so on.  Lots of other Redditors chimed in sharing…

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