Tag: children

• Toxic Parenting?

  When we apply terms like abuse, dysfunctional, bullying, and toxic to normal imperfect human behavior, we diminish the value of the terms, making it harder to confront real and serious cases of abuse, bullying, and suchlike.

  Christie Cole Atkins

  November 15, 2025

  family, parenting

  anger, children, dysfunctional families, family, forgiveness, God the Father, grace, Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, mental-health, parenting, punishment, relationships, tolerance, wisdom

• Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up…

  There are some things we don’t want our kids to be when they grow up, but we do want them to grow up. So why is it so painful?

  Christie Cole Atkins

  August 17, 2024

  Uncategorized

  blessings, children, church, empty nest, goals, gratitude, in Christ, kids, letting go, life stages, maturity, parenting, parents, thankfulness, wisdom