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Introducing Your Children to Poverty: When Should You Start?
Maks is intrigued as he watches three boys chasing a chicken. Guest contributor, Amber Van Schooneveld Remember when Val Bure and Katia Gordeeva won the Battle of the Blades? Val donated his award money to Compassion — and mothers and babies in Moca, Dominican Republic, are now receiving health care, nutritional support and a whole lot of love thanks to his mad ice skills. Last month, Val and his wife, Candace Cameron-Bure, had a chance to visit the program in the Dominican Republic with their three kids — Natasha, 12, Lev, 11, and Maks, 9. On our Compassion tours, parents often bring their teenagers but rarely their younger children. Which…
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How to Simplify Your Life
While visiting a small vintage home in Lower Fort Garry, I noticed that this particular house has eight beds. Four beds in one room, three in the other, and one off of the kitchen. I got to thinking about the days when my own grandmother raised 18 children. I’m certain that she didn’t have a separate bedroom for each child, or for each pair. It was girls in one room, boys in the other. They all fit, because they didn’t have an excess of junk. In families like theirs, they had two sets of clothing, one for school, and one for play. School clothes were hung on a hook beside…
