Author Archives: carl

holy meltdown time Batman

We just had the mother of all meltdowns.  Haven’t seen one this bad for a long time.  He attempted to attack his older sister, and then went into full off complaint mode talking so fast no one could understand him.  After which he started to attack me.  I ended up laying him on his belly across a bed and laying across him so he couldn’t move.  Very scary.  I am a large guy.  he is less than 80 pounds, and it was all I could do to keep him from hurting either himself or someone else. I swear that for a few minutes, I wasn’t sure he was my son. All over two things.  An ink pen and he didn’t want to take his meds. Now he is happily playing with his cars. and medicated. Calling into psych right now.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

my name is dad

How do you teach hard lessons to an adult?  You know the one that says: “you aren’t a child anymore, it is time to face responsibility…” I don’t have much more to say than that.  One child/adult is leaving for college and seems to be intent on packing as much fun into five days as can be done without taking caring of what they are responsible for in their life and their needs for college.  Guess if they haven’t learned it by now they will learn it the hard way soon enough. My name is dad and I don’t know what I am talking about.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

the teacher becomes the student.

My daughter recently returned from a mission trip.  The goal of the ministry was to aide in serving the homeless population in a large city. My daughter, who is in considerable pain from an injury to her leg, and wearing a knee immobilizing  brace said that they best part of the mission trip was busing tables. “Why,” I asked her, “was that the best part of the trip?” “Because it gave me a chance to talk to the people.”  was her reply. Now my daughter is normally reserved around people she doesn’t know, so this is a huge statement about how profound the experience was for her. I couldn’t be more proud. Related articles Mission trips are not a walk in the park (yesterdaylucas.com) New Orleans, here we come! (musingsofamatureyouthminister.wordpress.com) FREE: Mission Trip Devotions (youthmin.org) Are Short-Term Mission Trips Really Worth It? (marccortez.com) Tweet #fighting4answrs