Parenting On Purpose

NO Excuses The generation of children and teens have been raised observing the “its never my fault attitude”. Many in society want to blame every one around them for circumstances and choices, the victim mentality is sadly very prevalent.  This is a very adolescent attitude that many adults have not grown out of. We need [...]

Challenges The challenges of decision making are evident in every decision your child has to make.  Rather then making these decisions for your child, or becoming frustrated with the child’s poor decisions, use these as opportunities for decision making development. What are examples in the decision making training process? Well when our children are young [...]

The Four Parts of The Training Process As we have discussed previously, there are four “E’s” to every training process we face with our children.  We need to focus on all four of these steps for successful training. The first is our example as parents.  Are we setting the example of good decision making?  If [...]

The 2 Components of Making Wise Decisions There are two components that are necessary to teach our children so they can consistently make wise choices. The first is knowing where to go to find answers.  This is the first step to a good decision making process. There are many places we can train our children to [...]

Why It's Important to Raise Good Decision Makers This seems like an obvious question, because how our child makes decisions will affect every aspect of their life.  But if we truly believe this then why is this not a more prevalent focus of our parenting? For one thing it is a lot easier for us [...]

Ways To Get Help As A Mom And As An Individual One thing that we could all use more of is encouragement.  As moms we really benefit from being around others who are in the same stage of life as we are or even people who have gone ahead of us.  It is so easy [...]

How Is A Mom To Get Help Many moms today because of the economy are working outside the home.  There are also many moms who are having to work from home to bring in extra income.  The problem is that statistics show that most of the time it is the women who are still coming [...]

Finding You As a Woman and As a Person Like we said yesterday it is so important to prioritize our schedules in order to find balance.  There is another thing that we need to find time to fit in and that is time for ourselves.  We need to make sure that we do not completely [...]

Find The Balance In Life One thing that helps moms find the concept of balance is learning how to prioritize. It seems that we all have this huge checklist of things to get done and if we can’t check them off we feel an inordinate amount of guilt.   So we all need to sit down [...]

Motherhood Is More Challenging Then I Imagined This week’s topic hits very close to home for me personally as the mother of a two year old.  We are going to talk about how to deal with the overwhelming day to day responsibilities of being a mom.  I can say that I have seen this from [...]

Choose to continue the momentum that you have built training your children in gratitude through the holiday season. Christmas can be a difficult time for our children to have a grateful heart.

The Story of Squanto Listen to today's podcast to hear the story of the first Thanksgiving.

We talked yesterday about cultivating a grateful heart by focusing on serving those around us. A great Thanksgiving table discussion, even with extended family, is beginning to plan your family Christmas service project. What a great way to show your thanks to God for all He has given your family.

We said yesterday that gratitude is either caught or taught. The first way that we can train our kids to have a grateful heart is by example.

Gratitude is not something that is an innate human trait. Because we are all born selfish, it is something that is both caught and taught.

What do I do if my child is older and I am just processing this now? It is never too late to begin this process. You may have a little bit of extra work ahead of you as you set different family priorities and patterns. It is well worth the effort.

The most important thing on your list of goals for parenting is raising a God-honoring adult. This will be the filter through which your children live out their adult lives.

It would be such a tragedy to drop our child off on a college campus or watch them go out the door as adults and have regrets about our parenting. One way to make sure we are able to do our best to train our children is to have goals or a parenting curriculum.

If we are attempting to ensure that we are training our children to be human beings not "human doings" then we need to first step back and examine ourselves.

Have we put so much emphasis on the "success" of our kids that life has simply become racing from one activity to another? Society would have us believe that our children need to be academically, socially and athletically successful to be ready for the adult world. So childhood flies by in a whirlwind of homework and practices.