What I learned from my children…
Category: Parenting
Why We Chose Four…
Whether we enter a restaurant or head to the park, eyes around us always swiftly count my children. Some even squint to assess just how old my husband and I are. Usually, when people see a lot of children, they immediately assume it’s a great burden to bear. I have four children and had all of them by the time I was 30.
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Being a Spiritually Aware Parent
A home is meant to be a sanctuary, a place to be at peace and to freely commune with God. But many do not feel that their dwelling place is God’s dwelling place.
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When Parents Need to Choose Their Battles
There was an incident at the mall today. While any busy consumer would have easily passed this family by, I wasn’t in a hurry today, so I witnessed the event play out.
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How young families can have a meaningful Christmas season
When the holiday season rolls around, I have found that many young families feel the pressure to “do the season right.” It begins with this ideal in your head. You imagine your children happily decorating a Christmas tree. You envision cheerful Christmas card photos. There are traditions to build, parties to attend, and pictures to take. However, any holiday that has a heavy emphasis on gifts and sugar can be a recipe for disaster, especially for families with young children.
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When your child needs to be corrected
It’s easy to tell kids what to do. You could encourage them, force them, threaten them, bribe them…
However, well-behaved children do not necessarily guarantee growth into powerful, spirit-filled adults.
When your toddler can’t hear you…
Out of the four children I have, one of them is a two-year-old girl. She is the apple of my eye and makes my heart smile every day. She is the quirkiest and most humorous young lady. But no amount of positive attributes can hide the fact that she is still a two-year-old. It’s the transition year where they grow from being blabbering blobs to becoming self-expressing, opinionated children. They have all these emotions but very little words. They have all these desires but zero experiential knowledge. That’s why it’s typically called the Terrible Twos (although I would never go so far to call it quite that).
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Guilty Parenting
