Volume One · Cambodia
Real systems for raising multiple kids
Written by a dad still figuring it out. Four boys, one kitchen, and every system that survived contact with them.
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A Hundred Percent of Our Income Is Somebody Else’s Decision
Read the chapter →: A Hundred Percent of Our Income Is Somebody Else’s DecisionThat’s not a complaint. It’s a structural description, and it’s the single most important fact about how my family makes decisions. Living on missionary support means exactly that: all of it, with no second…
The Chronicle
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Four Boys, Four Wirings: The 7 Child Temperament Types
I have four sons. Same parents, same house, same dinner table — and four completely different ways of being a boy. Long…
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What Cambodia’s Pace Taught a Recovering Workaholic
I need to say this clearly, because it would be easy to read the last post and assume the ending: we didn’t…
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When My Son Asked If Church Was My House
There was a stretch in South Korea — about three months — where I didn’t have a single day off. Seven days…
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When Your Marriage Is Also Your Workplace
Most men get a commute. Thirty, forty minutes where the job stays in the car and the house waits at the other…
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“Happy Wife, Happy Life” Is Half a Sentence
Every man I know has heard the phrase happy wife, happy life. Almost none of us were told what it actually costs.…
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My Son Wants to Be a Missionary and a Marine Biologist (Here’s What I Told Him)
We were at dinner, plates half-cleared, the boys still picking at rice, when my wife asked the question every parent eventually asks:…