If you’re familiar with Love First, you know what we love to use contemporary literature to complement the religious texts in our curriculum. We get a lot of questions about…
Millie and I are both early risers. She seems to do this by choice, while I do it…reluctantly. We were both up the other morning around 5 o’clock and she…
Since becoming a parent, I’ve had some dreadful Easter mornings. Despite the warm and fuzzy memories of Easter mornings when I was a child, I wasn’t able to get that…
Like many other parents, I want to raise my children to be helpers and to learn the value of giving back to their community…One of my favorite aspects of the…
Danny, our 5-year-old, is a little guy — with some very big feelings. On a daily basis, he tries to articulate how much he loves me, often using comparisons like,…
A basic principle of Love First: Children can relieve the suffering of others. Use this Advent season to continue – or start – to develop a culture of empathy and compassion in your…
In the wake of the most recent mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Thousand Oaks, California, I find myself broken hearted. Again. With no time to heal since…
We’ve been talking a lot about courage in our Sunday school program. Like what it is, what it looks like, and why it’s important. When I asked the children to…
Like most people, God has always been ‘he’ in our house. It’s just what we learned, what feels comfortable, and how we’ve always done it. Every once and awhile we…
