When it comes to protecting your kids, monitoring where your kids go online, blocking them from places you don’t want them to go as well as limiting their time online Circle is the way to go. I have been using it at our home for several months now, it is dead simple to use. Circle […]
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In Bill Cosby‘s book Cosbyology he talks about the power of being yourself In this chapter, he tells a story about getting a gig in Chicago that he thought that he wasn’t good enough to be at. He took that onstage and ended up bombing. When they introduced him, they said, “Here’s a really funny
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The Power Of Family. At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it adds a few scenes that were not in the original movie. For me these last few scenes made the movie so much more powerful than the original movie with Gene Wilder. It really drove home that the four kids and their
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My last post was about keeping kids safe online but dealt more with computer based safety. The web is moving more and more towards mobile devices every year. From ipods to nintendo dsi’s, when you hand your child an internet enabled device without proper boundaries you are foolish. 52% of nine year olds and 95% of 15
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One of the posts I like to do from time to time is a post on keeping kids safe online. The internet is an incredible tool but it can and has done incredible damage. One of the most dangerous and most helpful characteristics of parents is they always believe the best in their kids. It’s dangerous because we overlook obvious warning
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The past few weeks our church has been experiencing a good bit of change. It’s a good thing. God is really up to some amazing things. Everyone in our church has been affected one way or another. As I have been processing the change in my life here are some of my thoughts. 1. We all avoid
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I can’t fully express how proud I am of a couple of kids from our church who on their own decided to do a lemonade stand to raise money to send to some missionaries in Somalia. They ended up raising over 225.00 bucks enough money to feed 220 people for one day. I am grateful
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This week I am going to be going into our Be Attitudes which are the values that we need to live and breath each weekend. Our Be Attitudes for Uptown are: BE SAFE BE COURTEOUS BE ENGAGING BE CONSISTENT Today I want to talk about safety. When working with kids you can never be to
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I was listening to this song on the way into work today and was crying like a baby. I was just so overwhelmed by the sufficiency of Christ and the insufficiency of me. I always want to engineer my future to make it safe and secure. What I need to remember is that I can’t
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