He speaks sentences of five or six words. He can put on his own shoes, get his own glass of water, throw away his trash after dinner, and use the toilet (most of the time) all on his own. He can count to thirty, name animals in pictures, recite his ABCs. He’s four.
He wakes up… 
Archive for July 2011
The Puzzle I Love
Doing Purple
My son loves the Pittsburgh Steelers. I love my son. So I’ve been learning about football – and a lot about life.
Do What We Do
I just finished reading Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy, a former Steeler who went on to coach his way to a championship in Indianapolis with that Manning kid. Tony learned how…
If We Move To Texas…
My in-laws from Houston are in town. Ten grandkids at a local hotel with Granda and Papa, at the over-chlorinated indoor swimming pool. Girls in one room. Boys in another. An evening meal at Cracker Barrel. Late night movie watching, eating candy, drinking Dr. Pepper – living like rock stars. For one Summer night. It’s…
The Kid Whisperer Meets S
My mom was the director of a daycare center for 27 years. Then she retired. For something like a week. Maybe two. And went back to work as a teacher’s aid in a public school classroom, loving on kids with various mental and physical setbacks all day.
Ask her any day “How was school?” and you’ll…
Third World Symphony…The Video!
You can also watch this video on at Vimeo.com.
Thanks to Ric and Mark at Compassion International for digging up the old footage of a longer-haired me and little Yanci. And thanks to Ryan Detzel for the great photograph from our Kenya trip together. And thanks to you for your constant encouragement, prayers, tweets, shares and…
3 Ways To Break The Ice With Any Child
I’ve met hundreds of kids after concerts in the lobby of churches and arenas, in homes and on playgrounds and streets in the developing world. Unbeknownst to me I was being prepared for the day S would join our family. On so many levels kids are kids, regardless of skin color, wealth, culture or language.…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
