by Brenda L. Yoder | Apr 22, 2021 | Fledge, Parenting
I checked my phone in the middle of the night. There were only social media and email notifications. Not what I was looking for. What I was looking for was a “Thanks, Mom, I love you,” or at least an “I love you, too” from my older kids no...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Mar 8, 2021 | Faith, For Women, Parenting
Vulnerable is a word I’m familiar with as a midlife mom. The last few years, everything I was sure about feels like it’s slipping away, like tequila that makes that girl’s clothes fall off. Only it’s not my clothes slipping off, it’s the...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Nov 1, 2020 | Faith, For Women, Parenting, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:58 — 21.9MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSWelcome to Season 4 of the Life Beyond the Picket Fence podcast! We’re continuing front porch conversations, those intimate discussions about deep, intrinsic...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Oct 25, 2020 | Parenting
“As the leader goes, so goes the nation”– a familiar saying I was reminded of while teaching a junior high Sunday School class. We were discussing good leadership during a lesson on Moses. I was honored to be among a wise group of kids. The compiled list of...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Aug 21, 2020 | Fledge, Parenting
“Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial” I Corinthians 10:23 “You let us figure things out on our own. You didn’t baby us” my nineteen year-old responded when I asked him what things his dad and I did “right” in parenting him and his siblings. My...
by Cassie | Aug 4, 2020 | Faith, Parenting, Podcast Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 20:27 — 17.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSIngrid and Brenda talk today about their top three tips for family life. Between them, they have over sixty years of parenting, and almost the same years of marriage,...
