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08 Feb 2012
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Top 10 Regrets #3 I hugged my wife when I came home from work.

Top 10 Regrets

  1. I believed the sun would rise tomorrow.
  2. I tried to control my tongue.
  3. I hugged my wife when I came home from work.
  4. I tried to love God.
  5. I cared about other people’s problems.
  6. I sang along in church.
  7. I closed my eyes in prayer.
  8. I held it together.
  9. I kept going.
  10. I spent time with my kids.

I want to talk about regret #3, hugging my wife when I came home from work.

It is one of my responsibilities, right, to hug her when I get home? That and taking out the trash pretty much rounds out my job description as a husband, right?

The kid’s can all see it. “There goes dad hugging mom again.”  I’m “modeling” a loving husband for them. Perfect.

Not quite.

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Posted by David Hamilton in Marriage and tagged , , , , , , ,
14 Jun 2009
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Special Needs Children

Let’s face it. Some children are easier to raise than others. Some make us more anxious parents than others. This post is for those of you who don’t have to be told that.

So, you know that when I talk about anxiety in parenting, it’s not just a pretend, sort of theoretical anxiety, right? It’s pretty much real, tangible, anxiety – like we’re not kidding around any more. Isn’t it? Sometimes it’s a “Bad things do really happen” type of anxiety. Or a “Bad things really have happened” type of anxiety.

It’s anxiety that’s connected to some unique history or characteristic of our child. We know that life is not going to be the same for them as for other children. We know that we have been asked to carry a burden that is different from that of many around us. So what about THAT type of anxiety?

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Posted by David Hamilton in Parenting and tagged , , , ,
01 Jun 2009
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Out of Age

A life transition is a common backdrop for someone deciding to seek counseling. Maybe it’s because life transitions lead us to ask big questions. And big questions are hard to answer alone.

This time of year you’ll see a lot of Open Houses to celebrate high school graduations, a life transition not only for the graduate, but for the parents, the siblings, and the peer groups of the graduate. At the launching stage, especially with the first or last child, parents can’t help but do some self-evaluation, asking big questions.

  • How did I do as a parent?
  • How did my child “turn out?”
  • Where am I in life?

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Posted by David Hamilton in Parenting and tagged , , , , , , ,

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