Dad's and Mom's Corners, by Steve and Teri Maxwell

The Dad's and Mom's Corners are written each month by Steve and Teri Maxwell. They share whatever the Lord has laid on their hearts that month. Sometimes it's encouragement specific to being a parent, sometimes it's about homeschooling, and sometimes it's related to growth as a Christian man or woman.

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Just Around the Corner, Vol. 1 is a 394 page book of the Corners from 1995 through 2000.

Just Around the Corner, Vol. 2, is a 384 page book of the Corners from 2001-2004. For more information about the books, click here.

Below, you will find the Dad's and Mom's Corners from 2005 through the present. We also left a few sample Corners up that are in the Just Around the Corner books. The Depression articles are from September of 2000.

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April 2008, Dad's Corner - Protecting Against Deception, Part 4
April 2008, Mom's Corner - When a Wife Disagrees with Her Husband, Part 4
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March 2008, Dad's Corner - Protecting Against Deception, Part 3
March 2008, Mom's Corner - When a Wife Disagrees with Her Husband, Part 3
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February 2008, Dad's Corner - Protecting Against Deception, Part 2
February 2008, Mom's Corner - When a Wife Disagrees with Her Husband, Part 2
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January 2008, Dad's Corner - No Dad's Corner this month
January 2008, Mom's Corner - When a Wife Disagrees with Her Husband, Part 1
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December 2007, Dad's Corner - Protecting Against Deception, Part 1
December 2007, Mom's Corner - The Gift of Contentment
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November 2007, Dad's Corner - Do Your Children Have Beautiful Feet? Part 5
November 2007, Mom's Corner - The Error of Ingratitude
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October 2007, Dad's Corner - Do Your Children Have Beautiful Feet? Part 4
October 2007, Mom's Corner - A Mom's Potential--What Will I Do With My Time?? Part 3
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September 2007, Dad's Corner - Do Your Children Have Beautiful Feet? Part 3
September 2007, Mom's Corner - A Mom's Potential--What Will I Do With My Mind?? Part 2
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August 2007, Dad's Corner - Do Your Children Have Beautiful Feet? Part 2
August 2007, Mom's Corner - A Mom's Potential--What Will I Do With My Mind?? Part 1
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July 2007, Dad's Corner - Do Your Children Have Beautiful Feet? Part 1
July 2007, Mom's Corner - Can a Scheduled Mom Be Spirit Led? Part 2
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June 2007, Dad's Corner - Needed Ingredients
June 2007, Mom's Corner - Can a Scheduled Mom be Spirit Led? Part 1
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May 2007, Dad's Corner - Don't Let Balaam Seduce You!
May 2007, Mom's Corner - The Valley of the Shadow of Death

April 2007, Dad's Corner - Balaam Rides Again
April 2007, Mom's Corner - From Night Owl to Morning Lark

March 2007, Dad's Corner - Leading in Which Direction?
March 2007, Mom's Corner - Helping Children Overcome Sin

February 2007, Dad's Corner - Praying with Your Wife—101
February 2007, Mom's Corner - Titus 2 Encouragement for a Young Mother, Part 2

January 2007, Dad's Corner - Turning Our Hearts Toward Our Families
January 2007, Mom's Corner - Titus 2 Encouragement for a Young Mother, Part 1

December 2006, Dad's Corner - The Greatest Earthly Gift
December 2006, Mom's Corner - Leading Our Children to Depend on Jesus

November 2006, Dad's Corner - Bad or Best?
November 2006, Mom's Corner - The "Good Part"

October 2006, Dad's Corner - Halloween and Halloween Alternatives
October 2006, Mom's Corner - Halloween

September 2006, Dad's Corner - "Just A Family, Sir"
September 2006, Mom's Corner - Scheduling for Priorities and Flexiblity

August 2006, Dad's Corner - Are You On-Track?
August 2006, Mom's Corner - Two Are Better Than One

July 2006, Dad's Corner - Land of the Free
July 2006, Mom's Corner - Individual Time with Our Children

June 2006, Dad's Corner - Father's Day!
June 2006, Mom's Corner - Self-Discipline in Our Lives and Our Children's

May 2006, Dad's Corner - Mama Gets a Hard Hat
May 2006, Mom's Corner - A Controlling Wife and Mom?

March/April 2006 Comment: You'll notice we combined the March and April Corners! We moved our server from Texas to Kansas and had some delays in being able to send out the Corners.
March/April 2006, Dad's Corner - Are You Just Going Through the Motions?
March/April 2006, Mom's Corner - Teaching Daughters to Sew

February 2006, Dad's Corner - A Trip to the Woodshed (For Men Only)
February 2006, Mom's Corner - What About Me? Part 5

January 2006, Dad's Corner - New Beginnings in a New Year (For Men Only)
January 2006, Mom's Corner - What About Me? Part 4

December 2005, Dad's Corner - To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate?
December 2005, Mom's Corner - What About Me? Part 3

November 2005, Dad's Corner - Where's the Grace?
November 2005, Mom's Corner - What About Me? Part 2

October 2005, Dad's Corner - Practical Projects for Our Children: Part 3, A Few Examples
October 2005, Mom's Corner - What About Me? Part 1

September 2005, Dad's Corner - for moms too - Practical Projects for Our Children: Part 2
Please Note: The Lord did not give Teri a Corner this month, but we really encourage moms to read the Dad's Corner!

August 2005, Dad's Corner - Practical Projects for Our Children: Part 1
August 2005, Mom's Corner - Children and Chores

July 2005, Dad's Corner - An Act of Maturity
July 2005, Mom's Corner - The Key to Scheduling

June 2005, Dad's Corner - What Flag is Being Flown Over Your Home?
June 2005, Mom's Corner - Benefits of Summer Scheduling

May 2005, Dad's Corner - Whose Mouth Is It?
May 2005, Mom's Corner - A Voice for Traditional Christian Textbooks

April 2005, Dad's Corner - A Family Pursuit
April 2005, Mom's Corner - Children's and Family Bible Time

March 2005, Dad's Corner - FIRE! FIRE!
March 2005, Mom's Corner - The Influence of a Mother’s Example

January/February 2005, Dad's Corner - How's Work?
January/February 2005, Mom's Corner - A Word Fitly Spoken

September 2004, Dad's Corner - Would You Go?
September 2004, Mom's Corner - The Importance of Daily Time with Jesus

July 2004, Dad's Corner - I Just Can't Understand It
July 2004, Mom's Corner - Benefiting from Summer Chores

February 2004, Dad's Corner - When the Boat Is Sinking, What Is Our Example? Part 1
February 2004, Mom's Corner - Our Desire for a Meek and Quiet Spirit

August 2003, Dad's Corner - Can Dads Influence the Children's Spiritual Outcome? Part 9
August 2003, Mom's Corner - I Just Want to Be a Mommy

May 2003, Dad's Corner - Can Dads Influence the Children's Spiritual Outcome? Part 6
May 2003, Mom's Corner - Traditional Christian Textbook Curricula

March 2003, Dad's Corner - Can Dads Influence the Children's Spiritual Outcome? Part 5
March 2003, Mom's Corner - A Few Helpful Tools for the Homemaker

July 2002, Dad's Corner - Dad - What's Your Excuse?
July 2002, Mom's Corner - Prayer Notebook

March 2002, Dad's Corner - Dad - The Leader of the Home: Aspects of Being a Good Leader - Part 5
March 2002, Mom's Corner - Anger (Part 1) - The Case Against Anger

December 2001, Dad's Corner - Aspects of Being a Good Leader: Making Decisions - Part 2
December 2001, Mom's Corner - Worthwhile Toys or Should It Be Tools?

June 2001, Dad's Corner - Don't Give Up
June 2001, Mom's Corner - Time for Summer Schedule Planning

May 2001, Dad's Corner - Preparing Sons - Real Life Stories
May 2001, Mom's Corner - Decisions for the New School Year

November, 2000, Dad's Corner - Halloween and Halloween Alternatives
November, 2000, Mom's Corner - Halloween

October, 2000, Dad's Corner - A Man and his Dawg
October, 2000, Mom's Corner - Expect Children to be Children

September, 2000, Dad's Corner - A Husband's Perspective on His Wife's Depression
September, 2000, Mom's Corner - A Journey Through Depression

July, 2000, Dad's Corner - We've Reversed a Bad Decision

January, 2000, Mom's Corner - How Long Does Character Growth Take?

February, 1999, Dad's Corner - The First Priority

April, 2000, Dad's Corner - Anger - Part 1

May, 2000, Dad's Corner - Anger - Part 2

September, 1999, Mom's Corner - Homeschooling the Dawdler

July, 1999, Mom's Corner - Pleasant Words Promote Instruction