Weekly Overload (in 800 words or less)

  Divorce and Remarriage Sometimes, your faith in your marriage might be rattled. Fears about the future, fears about the behavior of your partner, or even maybe fears about your own behavior can cloud your emotions of contentment and happiness in the present. This is a normal set of thoughts to have, and anxiety is often found in looking to the future. But these are not very productive thoughts, and if you think you're going to not be compatible with your spouse, it's your responsibility to do everything you can to not let that happen. If certain things your partner does sets off alarm bells that make you think divorce is inevitable, you should talk to your spouse about it. If that doesn’t work, maybe see a marriage therapist, who can help you communicate better, or facilitate communication between you and your spouse, or both. Divorce and remarriage can affect the family in many ways that “normal”, “basic”, or nuclear families could never imagine. There are many questions eve

Parenting Nelson Mandela once said, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” Do children come to us as blank slates? John Locke, the father of the idea of tabula rasa, would say so, along with the philosopher Rousseau. According to these two, society plants seeds of hatred, envy, and selfishness as children grow older. Perhaps, children come to us as selfish little creatures already. Their being hell-bent on amassing resources and power is only curbed by society that imposes punishment for such behavior. Which of the two of these camps are right? As a parent, you might be forced to ask this question many times. In today's day and age, we see a lack of adequate parenting, almost negligence, and an increase of self-absorbed little tyrants.  Nowadays, parenting is about sticking an electronic device in front of your children to keep them quiet and content, but this is not real parenting. The consequences of this mistaken bel

 Fathers and Finances “Whatever you accomplish [in life] is incomparable to being a parent.”-Jeremy Warner. Parenthood is a great responsibility and as soon as you receive that bundled-up child from the hospital, immense pressure is placed upon you (if it wasn't already felt during the pregnancy). It is obvious that there are a billion ways over the course of the next 18 years that you can seriously impact that child's life for the worse, and it seems as though positive outcomes arbitrarily appear. Though parenting is difficult, there are certain ways to help give stability and resilience to children as they grow. Of all the research conducted, fathers play an enormous role in the formation of young minds, both emotionally and educationally (Rollè et al., 2019). Fathers tend to use words that are just outside the understanding of their little children, which encourages and stretches their vocabulary (Vallotton et al., 2017). The father has three main jobs: protect, provide, and