by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 9, 2015 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
In mid-May the Pew Research Center released the finding from its 2014 Religious Landscape Study. The results themselves were not surprising: fewer Americans are identifying with religious groups, particularly Christianity and the “nones” (that is, people with no...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 17, 2014 | Raising Christian Kids, The Christian Imagination
As a little girl, I loved Strawberry Shortcake and My Little Ponies. My daughter has, somehow, developed a similar love thanks to the ubiquitous marketing that puts such characters—or Disney Princesses—on everything. But, when she made me a lovely picture this week at...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 28, 2013 | Living the Liturgical Year, Raising Christian Kids
While shopping today, my three-year-old pointed to a Christmas tree and asked, “why can’t people wait for Christmas”? She didn’t ask it critically but out of curiosity, interrogating the expression “oh, they just can’t wait for Christmas” more than the theology. It...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Sep 26, 2013 | Raising Christian Kids, The Christian Imagination
My nine-month old son has just started bawling hysterically whenever I leave the room. It starts when I place him in someone else’s arms: he begins to push his trembling lower lip out and then his bright blue eyes fill with deep distress as I step away from him....
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 25, 2013 | Raising Christian Kids, The Christian Imagination
My nearly three-year old daughter has a beautifully illustrated version of the Lord’s Prayer* that we read almost every night. She piously folds her little hands and says the words along with us, slowing coming to understand each phrase. She knows that “thy kingdom...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 11, 2012 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
Thinking of getting circumcised? Probably not….but how about getting your baby circumcised? A recent court decision may be relevant. A German court in Cologne ruled that circumcising boys is “grievous bodily harm” and should not be performed on a child until he...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 8, 2012 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
Did you hear Lolo Jones is a virgin? Scanning news headlines a couple weeks ago, I was surprised and somewhat bemused by the sudden obsession with Lolo Jones. Apparently she told Bryant Gumbel on HBO’s Real Sports that staying a virgin is more difficult than training...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 4, 2011 | Raising Christian Kids
Helicopter Parenting. Free-Range Parenting. Attachment Parenting. Natural Parenting. Feminist Parenting. I could list may more but the point in each is the same: each offers a way, a method for producing the perfect child…and if not the perfect child, at...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 22, 2010 | Raising Christian Kids
A recent New York Times piece, Cultural Studies: The Playground Gets Even Tougher, examines an increasing trend toward bullying among very young girls: kindergarteners and first-graders. The article looks at, among other examples, “Erin Munroe, a school guidance...
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