Standring column: Mother’s Day gift: No guilt

Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****Can you overcome your upbringing when raising your own kids? Josephine Martinez, came from the Philippines and was a stay-at-home mom all her life. She gave me an enduring sense of God’s goodness, which is ironic since she suffered from severe religious guilt. Fortunately, she didn’t raise us in the same way.Excessive self-blame is unhealthy and she never broke free. Since she rarely spoke about it, it took me […]  » Read More