Dr. Barrett Mosbacker has over thirty-five years in Christian school leadership, he has founded a school, led schools enrolling nearly 3,000 students, and publishes The Christian School Journal.
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker November 24, 2024 Parenting often feels like navigating uncharted waters, especially when the storms of life batter our children. As parents, we instinctively want to rescue them from pain or failure. But what if our role is not to shield them from every hardship, but to
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker October 28, 2024 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you (Isaiah 26:3). At the time of this writing, I do not know who will win the election. But I am sure some will celebrate the
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker September 22, 2024 “Dr. Mosbacker, how many sides does a biscuit have?” I was perplexed and amused by the question. “Two,” I replied with a puzzled grin. “Right, and so does nearly every student disciplinary case.” This seasoned, southern administrator was reminding me to investigate thoroughly
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker September 1, 2024 Over my 35 years of experience in school leadership, I have observed three parenting styles: Exasperating, Excusing, and Empowering. Exasperating Parenting To exasperate means to irritate or frustrate someone intensely, often to the point of anger. It involves actions or behaviors that provoke
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker July 21, 2024 We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states.1 We live in an intense period of division and conflict in American society. Americans are increasingly segregated into blue and red camps, each loathing the other and
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker May 26, 2024 The demands of leading a school can be relentless. Long days are filled with presentations to prepare and deliver, conferences to attend, parent and staff meetings, conflict management, board and donor meetings, writing reports, project planning, strategic planning and new program development, managing
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker April 07, 2024 I vividly remember my sixteenth Christmas. Like most 16-year-olds of my generation, I could not wait to drive and experience the independence and freedom that owning a car would bestow on me. Because my family was of modest means, I was not expecting
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker January 21, 2024 I vividly remember sheepishly walking into Sociology 101 as a pimply-faced freshman. With fear and anticipation, I walked into my first college class, taught by a Harvard-educated professor. What ensued in that classroom changed my life forever. For the first six weeks of
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker December 17, 2023 The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Harvard ignited a firestorm after dodging a simple question by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., who asked whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate each school’s code of conduct. Liz Magill,
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker October 08, 2023 “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” — Warren Buffett The Lesson of the Cave In The Empire Strikes Back, a scene depicts Yoda training Luke Skywalker
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker July 30, 2023 We continue slouching towards Gomorrah. We are well along the road to the moral chaos that is the end of radical individualism and the tyranny that is the goal of radical egalitarianism. Modern liberalism has corrupted our culture across the board. The imperative
By Dr. Barrett Mosbacker October 23, 2022 Cruising at thirty thousand feet and intensively absorbed in my work, I was startled by the sudden outburst of fearful crying from a three-year-old girl frantically running down the aisle of the jet. Her brown eyes were wide with fear and her face