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Category Archives: Love

Family, Humor, Laughter, Love, Parenting

When you come to the end of a perfect day

Author Par Donahue Date March 15, 2021
When you come to the end of a perfect day By Anonymous After living...
Tagged Humor, Laughing at life, Stress relief |
Attitude, Caring, Dads, Education, Family, Fathers, Judging, Justice, leadership, Love, Mothers, Parenting, Parenting teens, Scripture, Self esteem, Sports, Teens

13 quotations on the essence of leadership (read “parenting”)*

Author Par Donahue Date March 5, 2021
13 quotations on the essence of leadership* by Paul Stumb, Ph. D This essay...
Tagged Attitude, Character, Dads, leaders, leadership, Marines, Moms, Parenting, Parenting teens |
Attitude, Authors, Celebrations, Gifts, Love, Marriage

The Perfect Gift

Author Par Donahue Date October 11, 2020
Last summer Mary and I celebrated our 59th wedding anniversary. Big six-oh coming up...
Tagged Anniversaries, Authors, Celebrations, Whiskey, Wives, Writers |
Caring, Dads, Family, Love, Marriage, Moms

Love your spouse

Author Par Donahue Date April 21, 2020
Written for Music City Moms Blog. Enjoy! TRENDING: Home Discussions Blog Consignment Sales Contact...
Tagged date night, happy marriage, love, love your kids, love your spouse, Spouse |
This is not Mary and me
Love, Marriage, Parenting, Valentine's Day

Love is not blind

Author Par Donahue Date January 25, 2020
Many years ago when I was a teen, I heard a seasoned adult talking...
10 Comments |
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Christmas, Christmas is Love, Joy, Love, Mother Teresa, Parenting

Merry Christmas

Author Par Donahue Date December 5, 2019

I sent this note out last Christmas and it is still germane so I’m going to use it again.
Think about it and enjoy this joyous season.

discipline, Family, Fathers, Love, Marriage, Mental health, Parenting

Be the person you want your child to become

Author Par Donahue Date September 24, 2018
  If you listened to the first Parenting Matters show you will have already heard  this...
Tagged Attitude, Character, Daughters, kids, love, sons |
Abortion, Character, Church, Dads, Family, Fathers, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Pediatricians, Religion, Schools, Sex Education,Sexual assault,, STDs, Teens, TV, Values, Virtue, Youth violence

Sexual assault = Shame on us!

Author Par Donahue Date August 10, 2018
Another front page article in the Tennessean last week about how colleges are not...
Tagged colleges, feminists, movie, Porn, Respect, Sexual assault, Ten Commandments |
Character, Death, Family, Friends, Love

A man to emulate

Author Par Donahue Date April 12, 2018
    A couple of years ago Mary and I spent the weekend in...
Tagged compassion, Devotion, emotions, Men to emulate | 4 Comments |
Church, Dinner, Family, Forgiveness, Love, Parenting, Parenting teens, Self-esteem, truth

Parenting is like Cooking

Author Par Donahue Date February 2, 2018
 Recently, “The Tennessean” featured a chef I wish I could meet.  When he was...
Tagged ADHD, Character, depression, love, Teens and alcohol, Tough love | 4 Comments |
depression, Love, Marriage, Mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Pregnancy, Religion, Suicide, Teens

Breast cancer and birth control pills!

Author Par Donahue Date January 6, 2018
Can there be an association between women taking oral contraceptives and increased risk of...
Tagged Birth control pills, breast cancer, Cancer, Contraception, depression, STD, suicide | 2 Comments |
Caring, Character, Christianity., Christmas, Church, Dads, Fathers, Forgiveness, God, Holidays, Jesus, Judging, Love, Miracles, Parenting, Pets, Puppies, Religion, Vanderbilt

A confession, an apology, and a new look at Christ

Author Par Donahue Date December 23, 2017
Some time ago Mary and I hired a man to help us with a...
Tagged Best gift ever., Christmas, Christmas Trees, coton dogs, Face of God, Father's Day, gratitude, Holy people, kids, Nativity, pets, See God, teenagers | 6 Comments |
AAP, Dads, depression, Love, Marriage, Mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Pediatricians

Sex, Depression, and Suicide

Author Par Donahue Date December 7, 2017
Some years ago I attended a meeting on depression and sat through some very...
1 Comment |
cancer, Church, Love, Miracles

Love, Cancer, and Miracles

Author Par Donahue Date November 28, 2017
When my dad was in his mid-eighties he was diagnosed with lung cancer. I...
Tagged Chemo, Chkemotherapy, Fr Greg Boyle, Heart attack, Lung cancer, Matthew's Gospel, Servite Order, St Peregrine, Stroke | 6 Comments |
Engagement, Hymns, Love, Parenting

A love song for all to enjoy

Author Par Donahue Date November 8, 2017
It’s not often that I can brag about the music at our church. I’m...
Tagged Christ, Church, Hymns, Love songs, Marriage, Marriage proposal, Proposal | 6 Comments |
Dads, Fathers, Forgiveness, Foster care, Love, Parenting, Parenting teens, Thanksgiving, The Greatest Generation, The nest Greatest Generation, truth, Virtue

Parenting Matters, or does it? (Part 3) Four simple words that define parenting

Author Par Donahue Date October 13, 2017
Today we finish the stories I spoke of at the Washington DC meeting of...
Tagged Daughters, Jimmy Wayne, Mankind, Moms, sons, Tough love, trust, Walk to Beautiful | 2 Comments |
Caring, Christianity., Christians, Church, discipline, Family, God, Love, Military, Mother Teresa, Parenting, Parenting teens, Pediatricians, Scripture

Parenting Matters, Or does it? (Par 2) Mother Teresa answers

Author Par Donahue Date October 8, 2017
Today we continue the stories I spoke of at the Washington DC meeting of...
Abortion, Babies, Christians, Culture of death, Death, Family, Love, Parenting, Parenting teens, Politics, Pregnancy, TV, Values, Virtue, Youth violence

What I worry about!

Author Par Donahue Date January 19, 2017
A man recently suggested that America must be great for me because I’m a...
Tagged Bibles, Drugs, Education, Health, Inner cities, Poverty |
Attitude, Dads, Education, Family, Fathers, Friends, Love, Parenting, Parenting teens, Teens, Values

What happens to your kids when you have to move?

Author Par Donahue Date December 12, 2016
Many parents who are required to move to keep their jobs or start a...
Tagged changing schools, family meeting, kids, Moving, school |
Abortion, Character, Christians, Church, Justice, Love, Parenting, Planned Paarenthood, prayer, Pregnancy, truth, Values

RADICAL TRUTH

Author Par Donahue Date October 3, 2016
This post is written by Olivia, a Junior at Seattle University. Hope you enjoy...
Tagged Catholics, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Freedom, Passion, Pro-life |
Attitude, Character, Forgiveness, Love, Military, Parenting

A teenager’s rules of life

Author Par Donahue Date June 11, 2016
The young men and women who join the military and volunteer to put their...
Tagged Bible, Ephesians, Forgiveness, foster homes, Jimmy Wayne, Rule of life |
Attitude, Justice, Love, Mental health, Parenting

Where you are is where you want to be, or it it?

Author Par Donahue Date April 30, 2016
“There is a moment in all of our lives when we must shift from...
Tagged Changing, Future, Living |
God, Love, Parenting, prayer

Gratitude

Author Par Donahue Date February 1, 2016
We have all heard the benefits of living a life of gratitude. There’s so...
Tagged Boy scouts, Fed Ex, gratitude, Love. God, prayer |
Education, Love

THIS IS WHO WE ARE

Author Par Donahue Date December 8, 2015
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of...
Tagged Roberto Olivero |
Attitude, Dads, God, Love

A Father’s Love

Author Par Donahue Date May 18, 2015
 In Sunday’s sermon our priest was trying to tell us how much God  loves...
Tagged AA, Dad''s Love, Father's Day, Mom's Love, Mothers Day, Our Father's Love, suicide |
Love

Life’s like this!

Author Par Donahue Date July 9, 2014
Last summer we visited our daughter and son-in-law in Dayton, Ohio. While there, we...
Tagged Gardening, Sweet Million Tomatoes, Parenting, life, When thing go wrong |
Dads, Love

A Poem for Daddy

Author Par Donahue Date June 17, 2014
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Tagged Daddy, Daughter, Fathers, Patriotism, Servicemen and women |
Love

What makes some boys great?

Author Par Donahue Date April 30, 2014
I re-learned another great lesson recently, and yes, it was from a boy, or...
Tagged Dads, Sons, Punishment, Parenting, Respect, Tough love |
Love, Parenting

The Ten Commandments of Love

Author Par Donahue Date February 16, 2014
This weekends reading of the Gospel, Mathew 5:17-37, reminds us that it is not...
Tagged Forgiveness, Listening, Matthew's Gospel, Parenting, teaching right from wrong |
God, Love

Do you believe in Angels? I do! Let me tell you why.

Author Par Donahue Date December 18, 2013
Three years ago in his Dec 18, column,” Pop culture takes flight on angels’...
Tagged angels, Listening, neighbors, Pogo, Respect |
 
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