I am offering a different worldview to conventional wisdom. The worldview I am demonstrating is one where children don’t rely on their own understanding, but in all their ways acknowledge God so He can make their paths straight. . . .

“Your children teach you patience,” my mother declared when I told I did not have the patience to raise children. She was right, of course.

I remember the day that my two-year-old knocked over her sister’s block tower . . . again. . . .