Fighting the Urge: Avoiding Comparison in Parenting #053

Not sure about you, but we are constantly tempted to compare ourselves to others (and to each other, if we are being honest). And, it is no good for us.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Comparison is a driver of self righteousness or self loathing.

Instead of all of that, we want to pursue being comfortable with our full humanity: our strengths, our weaknesses, our limitations, our gifting. And, we want to teach our children to do the same.

Rachael also finds encouragement for us and our kids to live generously in The Message translation of Matthew 5. ("No more tit-for-tat stuff.")


The Stat of the Week is about maybe the most compared thing among parents of young children: screen time (from a study by the Pew Research Center).


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