Comments on: The She Shed https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Steven Birn https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/#comment-48934 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:22:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23343#comment-48934 It seems to me that the phrase “loving yourself as your neighbor” is a dangerous slippery slope. In fact, one of the problems in post-Christian society is that we love ourselves too much. I don’t have a problem with the “she-shed” so long as men are free to watch the game in peace.

]]> By: Marcia Sinke https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/#comment-48932 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:03:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23343#comment-48932 Never mind the gate, get a playpen! Our 8 children were in the playpen until the next one bumped them out. None of them is intellectually stunted. Invest in a good one (I recommend the wooden Dutch-style type) with a bottom that can be raised or lowered. As newborns, we had it raised, which keeps them safe from their toddler siblings, and acclimated them for later. Another advantage is that they learn to pull up and walk, holding onto the rails.
Also, if you put your children to bed on time, you have the evening for yourself! But don’t expect your child to be on a schedule when half the time you disrupt it by taking them out when they ought to be tucked in bed.

]]> By: Phil Pockras https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/#comment-48929 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:14:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23343#comment-48929 Back when we had two boys, one aged six and a half and another aged three, I determined to help my sweetie. She was home-schooling the older son. I decided to get her a “digital dishwasher” — my ten digits. We’d done the dishes together for twelve years. It was time to take it on myself and give her some relaxing time each evening. I do not like washing dishes, left to my own preferences. It was, and is, a way to sacrifice myself and my preferences to bless my wife. That makes it more than tolerable. It shows her every night that I love her.

She has said time and again what a blessing it was and is to know that, as soon as supper is on the table, she is done for the evening. She can do puzzles, watch Jeopardy, or whatever. The boys, then, were old enough to let Mama relax while they played quietly. There was, of course, in the back of their minds that Daddy could come whooshing in from the kitchen if necessary. Which it was, by times.

Now, they’re men. We haven’t home schooled since 2009. Now she works at a local library, as well as having her own lawncare business. However, we still have our “digital dishwasher”.

]]> By: The She Shed | Best Christian Book Store https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/#comment-48928 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:30:21 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23343#comment-48928 […] Props to: http://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/ […]

]]> By: Kim shay https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/02/29/the-she-shed/#comment-48927 Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:19:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23343#comment-48927 I was very fortunate in that my children never struggled with napping in the afternoon. I always had a couple of hours in the afternoon for time to myself. I had a wise older woman tell me, “It’s hard to live in the world of a child all day long.” And she was right. I think if we start when they’re young, and make it a priority, it is a lot easier.

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