Having a hard time pushing the vegetables onto the daily menu at your house? Struggling with kids who won’t eat their greens, even if it means “no dessert for a month, mister!?” Sometimes dinnertime can become a warzone, and then no one’s happy eating anything, anyway, and the meal you worked so hard to make [...]
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Sweaty heads and dirty feet tumbled into the car after an evening last week at BHJ Girl’s Home in Thailand. And we waved goodbye out the window as the gate was closed behind us, and I asked my three kids in the backseat, “Well, did you have fun?” And, immediately, my son started in– “I didn’t [...]
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We all make millions of choices in life. We choose where we live and what job we take. We choose the spouse we marry, for better or for worse, and we choose what movie we watch on a Friday night, again, for better or for worse. We humans take great pleasure and comfort in being [...]
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I was filling out paperwork last week when another mother touched my arm and said kindly, “You must be Laura. I teach your children, and they are Free Spirits, aren’t they?” And my pen stopped midair, and I immediately asked what I know you’re thinking, “What’d they do?” And she reassured me that she enjoyed [...]
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I had a hard day today. Disappointment. Miscommunication. Delays. Other than a super-cute new haircut (thanks, MB), things were a disaster. The chaos of moving overseas mixed with the weariness of parenting sick children left me feeling like I began the day, behind. The list seemed overwhelming and the plan for the morning became quickly skewed by errands [...]
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Best Advice I have yet to receive on homeschooling young children: Some days, your only goal should be to do two things: read for an hour to them and have some type of devotional. –Sally Clarkson, at a conference Amanda and I attended in Colorado last year Best Advice I have yet to receive on [...]
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ALifeOverseas.com / LauraParkerBlog.com.
My family is living overseas in Thailand, where my husband is directing a Christian Humanitarian Foundation. This blog is the honest recording of our journey– squatty potties and all. 
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Destined Traveler.
Mentoring Young Adults, Hosting Teams, Educating about Human Trafficking.
