First varsity hockey game.
First varsity hockey goal.
First goal of the season for the team.

A losing effort in the end, but my hockey player played pretty great.

In case you weren’t sure of how much of a nerd I truly am, I am ridiculously excited about the new @sunniedogcom casters I just put on my Aeron.

In parenting news, my children have already asked if they can race my chair around the house.

Oh, the things we do for our children…

Photo of my 2020 PGA Certified Caddie (for junior golfers) card.

Our budding engineer built his own Millennium Falcon from plans he found, using myriad random pieces in his LEGO collection.

Photo of Kid2 with his homemade LEGO Millennium Falcon

Photo of Kid2 showing back of his homemade LEGO Millennium Falcon

Photo of Kid2's homemade LEGO Millennium Falcon with the top opened

Wrapped up the first part of my Voltron LEGO build this afternoon with my construction partner.

Photo of myself and Kid2 with the first LEGO Voltron lion

There’s a new episode of The Empowered Parent Podcast out! We interview foster and adoptive parent Jillana Goble about her work helping foster kids in Oregon, and her book No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting.

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A rare moment of brothers not fighting…



In its past, The Empowered Parent Podcast was ministry-supported, backed by a church. Since being spun off, however, there has been no financial backing. We want to remain ad free on the podcast, so today we are launching on Patreon. Please consider supporting us: www.patreon.com/empoweredparent

Tonight at Chez Turner, we tried out a new sous chef.

The Empowered Parent Podcast Shelters in Place

Like most of our listeners, our families are sheltering in place, doing our best to remain in coronavirus quarantine except for venturing out for groceries and food. Ryan, Kayla, and I got together over Zoom to record a pair of episodes about our experiences, and I shot a promo video for these with my boys.

You can listen to the first of these two episodes here: https://empoweredparent.podbean.com/e/shelter-in-place-s07-e01/

I’ve also been informed this episode was downloaded over 1,000 times in the first 24 hours!