Is being too busy inevitable in modern life? Heather Cook presents six practical time management tips from her experience as a homeschooling mother of five.
Read More »Mary vs Martha? What Kind of Mom are You?
Many moms feel guilty when they read the Mary and Martha story, but Seton alumna, Lydia Martin, explains why they shouldn't.
Read More »Too Busy to Build a Booklist? Here’s How – In 3 Simple Steps
Interested in a personal booklist? Mary Donellan decided that's what she needed to reclaim her reading habit and came up with a simple three step solution.
Read More »Summer ‘Depression’? Why I Have a Hard Time *Not* Being Busy
by Elaine Harrah | I dreaded the arrival of June 1st and longed for the beginning of August, when I would be busy with a new school year learning new things.
Read More »The Problem with Being Too Busy
by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | In “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales Chaucer introduces the Man of Law, one of the characters on the pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Beckett, with these famous lines: “No one in England matched his bustling about,/ But still, he wasn’t so busy as he always made out.”
Read More »Constant Distractions: How They Destroy Our Mental Clarity
by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian | An active human life with its responsibilities naturally has its share of distractions and interruptions. Good work, however, always requires concentration and attention from beginning to end with no or few disruptions.
Read More »How to Tell if You’re Working for God… or for Yourself
by Lorraine Espenhain | If our motives for working give value to our labors for God, how can we be sure that those labors are done for love of God and not to promote and glorify self?
Read More »Multitasking: The Jury is Out
by Mary Lou Warren | All my life, I thought the ability to multitask was a positive and desirable “talent” to acquire. It seemed a great way to accomplish numerous tasks in a short period of time. Intellectually I reasoned that with all the many technological innovations at hand, life should become simpler.
Read More »Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Stillness is a thing which it seems harder and harder to find. The constant barrage of information that comes to us now is seemingly more confusing than ever. Years ago, I remember seeing pictures of Times Square, with its multiple electronic screens flashing messages to passersby, and I thought it would be a rather disorienting place to be.
Read More »Help? You got it!
Question from a Seton Mom: What do those homeschooling moms out there with both school-age children and toddlers do to keep the little ones occupied? I have a child in ...
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