The High Calling : Helen Lee: Author, Speaker, Missional Mom

Practice With Purpose

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

This morning I have a post on The High Calling website, entitled “Practice With Purpose,” about our family’s time at Breakthrough Urban Ministries last summer. Here is the beginning of the piece, and you can read the rest at TheHighCalling.org’s website! *** My exasperated son banged his hands on the piano keys. He was an 8-year-old with clear musical ability but no desire to practice. “Why? Why do I have to do it again? I don’t understand!” he moaned. I knew this was standard behavior for similar children his age, but the knowledge didn’t make dealing with his resistance any easier. “C’mon,” I coaxed. “You’re playing in public on Saturday. Don’t you want to be at your best?” He glowered…

Friday, January 21, 2011

I’m a little late to the party, but this is the first of two separate posts I’ve written about the whole “Tiger Mom”controversy: I was in a celebratory mood. Not an hour before, I’d walked across the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., welcomed the piece of paper declaring my new standing as a high school graduate, and thrown up my mortarboard with joy, flinging away four years of late nights, stressful exams, endless cram sessions, more than a few heartaches, and everything else that went along with attending a competitive public high school in the suburbs of our Nation’s Capital. I was still feeling giddy at dinner with my family at a posh steakhouse when my father revealed what he…