Charmaine Broom is a singer and songwriter who has been singing with Kirk Franklin for years. She is also a wife, a “bonus-mom” and founder and CEO of Blended Families Rock, which aims to bring unity between biological and non-biological families. Charmaine explains how the Blended Families Rock movement specifically aims to make things more […]
In this edition of the Get Up Poll, Erica Campbell asks whether parents are giving kids the option of going to church, or requiring them. Erica says when she was younger, she didn’t have the option. She was told to go, and there was nothing to negotiate. Nowadays, parents have more of a modern approach […]
In this Get Up Poll, Erica Campbell asks- are you a good communicator? Are you a listener, or a talker, or both? “Get Up!” listeners call in with their answers, often detailing where they are in their journey toward becoming their best communicator. One woman explains why listening is particularly important as a parent, because […]
In this edition of Love Talking, Erica Campbell opens up on her experience of going home for the first time after a long stretch of traveling. She says in these times, she still has to reprimand her kids despite the fact that she missed them so much and would rather not have to spend time […]
Erica Campbell recalls hanging out at her grandma’s house as kid with all of her siblings. If any of the kids acted up, Erica recalls, their grandma wouldn’t be mean or yell at them, she would pray at them. In this way she would reprimand them in love, as opposed to being antagonistic or spiteful. […]
Just about everybody can look back into their childhood and recall the whooping that changed their life. Whether it was mom and dad, or maybe a grandparent or an auntie, the switch has been a staple in the black household for generations. In this edition of the Get Up Poll, these listeners call in and […]
In this edition of GRIFF’s Prayer, GRIFF shouts out one of his friends who got him in trouble for shoplifting when they were kids. This friend, Nigel, has gotten him in trouble for other things as well. GRIFF just found out that his friend Nigel is in jail. So GRIFF sends out a prayer to […]
For this Get Up Poll, Erica Campbell and GRIFF ask listeners this important question: when is the right time to send your kids out of the house and into the world? In a time when even the vast majority of recent college graduates move back home, the answer to such a question is certainly not […]
In this edition of GRIFF’s Prayer, GRIFF was inspired by Erica Campbell‘s thoughts about “the good stuff.” He launches into a prayer of gratitude for the “good stuff,” reminiscing about the simpler times, when imagination was employed in order to create things to play with as kids. He talks about these simpler times in contrast […]
In this edition of GRIFF’s Prayer, GRIFF comes to God in a “grateful spirit” now that school has started and the kids are out of the house and in their classrooms! He laments about his house full of children and empty of food over the summer, and how much he looks forward to the days […]
