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4 Certain Ways to Know You Enable Your Children By Kristen Hatton Helicopter and lawnmower parenting are pervasive in today’s  culture , just ask any teacher. But while it’s easy to criticize these parents who swoop in to rescue their kids or do whatever necessary to keep challenges at bay for their children, it’s not always so easy to see our own tendencies to do the same. We parents tend to miss (or dismiss) our own over-parenting that thrusts us too into these camps. Every parent I know loves their children and wants to help them succeed. The problem is we have come to elevate their success and happiness above all, and our life and happiness is dependent on theirs. Our children have become our idols and to this end we will do whatever necessary to ensure things go well for them. But in our attempts to control our “helping” is actually hindering our kids. We self-justify why it is necessary for us to call the teacher or talk to the coach. We rationalize that ou

How Do I Explain to My Kids Why We Don't Celebrate Halloween? Alicia Purdy Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer 2019 4 Oct COMMENTS 4 “Mom, Dad, is it “wrong” to celebrate Halloween?” That’s a question Christian kids ask their parents every year when the decorations start to come out—the witches, the skulls with the spinning eyes, the graveyard and ghost décor, the blood and spiders. It’s almost easy to give an answer to that question when you consider all of those gory and clearly demonic, dark displays, but what about all the cuteness? Is that “wrong” too? It is “wrong” to dress up in fun costumes and go out with all of your friends and knock on doors, giggle together and get free candy? Is it wrong to dress up like a princess or a favorite sports player and go to the church parking lot for a “Trunk-or-Treat” on Halloween? Not Celebrating Halloween Isn’t about Right and Wrong When you’re young, you want to be the same as everyone else. You want to fit in. As an