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,...
by Brenda L. Yoder | Jul 15, 2020 | Faith, Parenting
Mom fear is a term I labeled in a recent broadcast in the Fledge Parent Facebook Forum. The enemy of God doesn’t want us talking about it. The video was accidentally deleted after it went live, and my phone overheated as I tried to record a recap. (Here’s...
