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Holy Gatekeepers

September 26, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

‘Pleeeease? Just this once.’  My mom never fell for it. 

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: parenting, teenagers

The Power of Presence

August 15, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup 1 Comment

The hero’s journey predates even our earliest holy scriptures.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Blessed Virgin Mary, hero, St. Mary the Virgin, teenagers

Extended Family

July 10, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

As it turns out, Uncle Ed Sheeran and Auntie Taylor Swift only feel like family, but they have a powerful influence over our growing children, much more so than the family we only get to see and visit at holidays.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Music, parenting, teenagers

Co-Parenting Communication

June 19, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup 1 Comment

We are aware that our experience of co-parenting does not reflect that of other people in a broken relationship.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: communication, divorce, parenting

Summer Reading: Why to pick this battle and some recommendations

May 8, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

In our house, it’s not often our boys pick up books unless it’s a last resort. But we keep giving them books.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: book list, reading, summer

Maycember is Upon Us

April 30, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Caffeine up, Buttercup. Maycember is here. What’s your battle plan?

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: busy-ness, children, parenting, schedules, school, teenagers

Sharing Love with the Unknown

April 25, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup 3 Comments

Mark’s evangelism took fierce courage to go beyond his boundaries, into the unknown, to the unseen, sharing news he knew was urgent, life-sustaining, and fortifying. 

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: parenting, saints, St. Mark, suicide, teenagers, teens at church

Building a foundation for generosity

March 19, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Why not give more?

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: generosity, Holy Family, parenting, St. Joseph

Thank You, Good-Bye

November 5, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup 3 Comments

As part of their visit to Episcopal High School, the Buddhist monks taught the art of constructing sand mandalas through demonstration. Days of demonstration.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, Family, Holy Spirit

Ordinary, unknown, but remembered

October 28, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Saint Simon and Saint. Jude *sound* familiar, but beyond associating the latter with St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, most of us can’t tell you much about either.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Feast Days, gratitude, St. Jude, St. Simon

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