Volume 5 (July 2001)

Contents

1. The Women Speak: 10 Things I Wish Men Understood
   Basically, we acknowledge the differences between us and recognize that bridging them requires effort from both men and woman. Hopefully, this list will be helpful to you as you forge a frontier that presents great challenges and even greater rewards.

2. 10 Things I Wish Women Understood about Men
   Here are the 10 Things you wish women understood about you and your needs.

3. Prayer For Your Wife has Great Power
   When you pray for your wife, God will bless both her and you in your life together. Prayer invites God to unleash His great power, and your marriage is too important for you not to invest in praying for your wife.

4. You Can Help your Angry Child
   Anger has great destructive power, and it can be both bewildering and frightening to deal with anger in your own child. If you can discover what’s at the root of your child’s anger, however, you can begin to deal effectively with it. God will help you as you help your child manage anger in healthy ways.

5. How Does a Man Balance Work and Family?
   By Linda S. Mintle, Ph.D. Work is important in men's lives, but trouble erupts when work overshadows family life. Men often struggle to find balance between the demands of work and home.
   

6. Embrace Life More Fully by Living in the Present
   The past is gone and will never return. The future will be unpredictable if it comes at all. The only sure time you have to fully experience is now, so God wants you to live in the present.

7. Build Close, Lasting Friendships
   The best kinds of friendships are those that are close and lasting. Those intimate friendships require significant investments of time and energy, but it’s definitely worth it to develop them.
   

8. You can Learn to Quit Procrastinating
   Perhaps you, like millions of others, made a list of New Year’s resolutions, fully intending to make some needed changes in your life. But now you find yourself a couple of months away and you haven’t gotten around to starting them. Don’t despair. You can learn to stop procrastinating.

9. How Much TV Are You Watching?
   “Except for school and family, no situation plays a bigger role in shaping the American child than TV,” says Richard Zoglin. The average home today has the TV on six hours and 17 minutes a day. The average American child will watch 5,000 hours of TV before first grade.