When Your Husband Is Called To Serve The Church: A Wife’s Response
Recently, a group of men, including my Husband, were installed as either stewards or deacons of...
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Tag: character
“It’s A Beautiful Day… Life Lessons With Mister Rogers”
“It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine?...
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How to Parent Using the Fruits of the Spirit
You know the saying “I was a good parent, until I had children.” Yup. That’s me. I thought I knew how to parent. I thought I had it all together and could raise sweet, obedient, and respectful children who never complained, fought, argued, or caused mischief. Boy was I wrong!
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Character Building For Children
Character traits is one of the most important subjects my children will ever learn. Everything from kindness to compassion, gentleness to cheerfulness, truthfulness to hospitality. There are so many character traits to learn that I simply cannot name them all.
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Please Pass the Character Building
Don’t forgot to teach your kids about character, the value of compromise and getting along with others as you instruct them in the rigors of academia! Here’s a great example from our own homeschool! It was one of those icky, yucky, rainy, dreary, pent up too long kind of days.
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How to Not Provoke Your Child to Anger
Do you have an angry child? It can become extremely frustrating to know how to deal with them since it usually stirs up so many emotions in the parent, when a child’s anger surfaces. Know this; they can change. Also, if you feel as though you may have been provoking them to this behavior, you can change as well.
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Character Over Progress
As homeschool moms, it’s easy to fall into the trap of comparing your child’s progress to another. I’m no exception. One day, it had been brought to my attention that I have a child that isn’t perfect.
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Teaching Character in Peace
Many parents wait until the heat of the moment to teach their children character traits. Classic example; their child hits another kid on the playground. Embarrassed and ashamed the parent says to them, “We don’t hit! Say you are sorry.”
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2 Simple Ways to Encourage Thankfulness
We live in a world that constantly informs us that we deserve more, better, and bigger things in order to be happy. As a mom striving to cultivate a heart of gratitude and contentment in my children, I find myself going against the American grain in a whole lot of ways!
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What Type of Mum Do You Want to Be?
What type of mum are you? What type of mum do you want to be? We can have airy-fairy ideas of what...
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Discipleship as a Lifestyle
Whether we strive to achieve the perfect discipleship moment every morning through the plethora of resources available or we seek the perfect evening Bible time when Dad can be present, have you ever felt that discipling your children has become a series of boxes that simply need to be “checked off” on your daily to-do list?
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Teach Your Children to Be Assertive
Can your child stand up for themselves? Or are they a pushover? We’ve had to work on this skill in...
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