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Day Care
02/01/2019
The Ripple Effect Of Daycare ...Recently, I babysat the three-year-old next door so his highly-educated parents could have a date night. When I arrived at their house, the dad had just gotten home, and the mom had picked up their child from daycare and had also just gotten home... More >>

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01/04/2019
Trying To Spread The Word My best friend recently shacked up with her boyfriend and ignored my warnings about doing so. I recommended she listen to your show (I've been a fan for just over a year) and warned her that if he wasn't putting a ring on her finger, he wasn't willing to commit and lay his life on the line for her... More >>

Tags: Character-Courage-ConscienceDay CareParentingPersonal ResponsibilityShacking UpTen Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their LivesValues
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01/03/2019
Reminders That I Did The Right Thing ...As I was reading to my little ones, a very well-dressed mother and her three-year-old son who was clutching a toy airplane hurriedly walked by us. The mother dropped her son off at the daycare, and he immediately started screaming... More >>

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12/07/2018
I Know I'm Doing The MOST Important Work There Is I have a 7-month-old little boy. When I was pregnant, my husband took a completely different career path for the sole reason of allowing me the privilege to raise our son... More >>

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12/06/2018
I'm Not Lucky, I'm Doing My Job We listened to a call recently about a mom with two kids in daycare. We paused our homeschooling to listen to the entire call... More >>

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12/06/2018
Toddling About the Town My husband's co-worker ran into a local police officer at the store one day...The officer proceeded to talk to him about the crazy incident involving his 2-3 year old... More >>

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10/29/2018
The Commander of Our Household During our courtship, my husband and I decided I would stay home if we had children while he worked to provide for us. I've now been a stay-at-home mom for eleven years, and for the last two years, we've homeschooled our two kidlets... More >>

Tags: Character-Courage-ConscienceDay CareParentingRegarding Dr. LauraWomen's Point of View
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10/25/2018
Reminding Me Of My True Priorities I began listening to your program 27 years ago when I was a mother of an infant with another on the way. I was a successful business woman, making the same salary as my husband... More >>

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10/12/2018
Wishful Thinking In my teens and early twenties, I worked at a daycare. When I was 16, a mom asked me to drive her children home after closing. It turned out she was desperate to attend a 'happy hour' at a local restaurant... More >>

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08/21/2018
Priorities Thank you for drawing a hard line on the importance of staying home and raising your children... More >>

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