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Big Kid Prank, Little Kid Story
One Halloween when my daughter was a pre-teen, we awoke on November 1 to find toilet paper draped over the maple tree and the magnolia tree in our front…
 • Marsha Walton
Just Do It!
In this week of New Year’s Resolutions, I’ve been reading through my set of elementary school stories for things children have said about…
 • Marsha Walton
No Bad Guys in our Christmas Pageant
In the early ’90’s Reverent Cheryl Cornish discerned that getting children to Christmas Pageant rehearsals was a hardship for many First Congregational…
 • Marsha Walton
Little Children – Big Feelings
A Debate about Emotion Socialization
 • Marsha Walton
Adam and Eve and Fourth Grade Ideas about Nakedness
A good reason to tell Bible stories to children is that the same stories come up year after year.
 • Marsha Walton
Intimidating Teens
Again, I am inspired by Lisa Sibbett’s ‘The Auntie Bulletin” to share a memory.
 • Marsha Walton
What if you don't feel grateful?
On a Sunday before Thanksgiving, my KidsChurch kiddos talked about why we say ‘thank-you’ and about when we should say thank-you.
 • Marsha Walton
Who Can Even Tell about Peer Rejection?
This is the third and final installment of my mini-series on rejection and exclusion in middle childhood.
 • Marsha Walton
Peer Rejection and Exclusion in China
In the studies I have done of peer conflict, we noticed many similarities and some very interesting differences between stories told by children in the…
 • Marsha Walton
Listening to Children
Listening to Children
Listening to Children Weekly examples of what children have to say – about friendship, aggression, punishment, gender, religion, grown-ups, and about all the great questions we discuss with college students in philosophy 101.
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