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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My Son Said He’d See Grandma on the Phone. He Meant It.
Read the chapter →: My Son Said He’d See Grandma on the Phone. He Meant It.We were leaving for Korea for a few weeks, and my wife’s mother was saying goodbye to the boys the way grandmothers do, one at a time, taking her time about it. She got…
The Chronicle
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Grief and Fatherhood: Why It Took Two Years to Put the Weight Down
The phone call came while we were still living in Korea. I was standing in our apartment hallway, holding a half-folded pile…
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Moving Overseas With Kids: Why We Refused to Treat Our Boys Like Luggage
Before we packed thirty-six cardboard boxes and boarded a one-way flight from Incheon to Phnom Penh, I sat our sons down at…
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I Spent Ten Years Working With Third Culture Kids. Then I Raised Four of My Own.
Before I was an ordained pastor, before I was an appointed missionary, and years before I was married with four sons in…
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A Hundred Percent of Our Income Is Somebody Else’s Decision
That’s not a complaint. It’s a structural description, and it’s the single most important fact about how my family makes decisions. Living…
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We Do Family Devotions Every Night. Not Every Night.
Both halves of that are true and I’ve stopped trying to reconcile them. Family devotions happen at our house before bed. That’s…
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His Ear Took Half a Day. Mine Took Three Months.
We flew to Korea together, Number 3 and I, both of us there for the same reason. He has chronic ear trouble…