David received some money for his birthday, and decided to purchase an airplane model. I took him to the model store in town, and started reading off all the plane titles and telling him which ones he could afford. After a short minute, I could sense his frustration. He didn’t want mom telling him what [...]
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One of the things my mom has said is that it is true you cannot force a horse to drink, but you can give him salt so he wants to drink. It would be lovely if I could simply tell my children what to do, and have them do it, all the time. But the [...]
Filed under: Obedience
I’ve heard various Christians react to the apparent conflict between shepherding a child, and winning the battles of authority. Regardless of how you want to label the conflict, I had a good experience this morning loving and caring for my twenty month old. She ran away with sister’s toy, and when I told her to [...]
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We made it home tonight at a good hour. On our travels, I met Shelley for the first time and had a lovely visit (although probably about two hours too short! I was sad to say goodbye when we were just getting started.) We also stopped at Morning Star Baptist Church on our way out [...]
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The final vacation post from the archives. See you next week! I love this passage. The imagery of parents passing to their children a knowledge of God’s greatness and goodness is powerful. The problem is, it assumes that I am right with God, that I have a knowledge of God, that I am remembering God’s [...]
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Another vacation post from several years back. David was three and Bethel was nearly two. A friend mentioned recently that she sometimes felt like distracting her young son (toddler) was neglecting to teach him/ discipline him. This statement got me thinking about this technique, since I too, have found that it is a very effective [...]
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Since I’m on vacation, I’m taking a break from posting for the rest of the week. In the meantime, I’m going to repost a few articles from the archives. This post was first written several years ago when David was a toddler. I’d probably add to it now, but no time, no time today. I’m [...]
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Since I’ve had several questions about this post, I decided to make some explanations a regular post. [The real reason is that I spent a lot of time on this topic, and I don't want to waste the energy, so to speak.] To clarify, I don’t at this point forbid our children from hugging family [...]
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