Category: Encouragement
Clearing Your Calendar for Your Kids
If you are a parent, the title to this post probably sounds strange to you. It seems like almost all of your time is devoted to your children. You are either feeding them, bathing them, driving them somewhere, helping with homework or one of a hundred other things involved in caring for a child. Would it surprise you to learn even with all of that direct care, the average parent spends between twenty and forty minutes a day in meaningful conversation with their children?
In less than forty minutes a day the average parent is trying to imprint their children with everything they feel is important in life. Hopefully for many of you, this includes sharing important things about God and His plans for your children.
Creating Parenting Plans
Part of the fun of a vacation is in the planning. Our family is rather dangerous when it comes to vacations. We usually start out pretty calmly, targeting a particular city. Once the maps come out though, we tend to go a little crazy. We may notice we will be close to the state line of a state we haven’t checked off of our list or maybe we will read an article about a special place a few hours away from our main destination. Our final trip may not end up close to where we originally thought we would go, but because we developed a plan with some flexibility, we have always felt like we had the most amazing vacations we possibly could.
Parenting is a lot like that. You need to target some final destinations you want to make sure you reach with your child before he leaves home. Most likely your list will include some things about education and good habits. I pray your most important goal is to raise a child who is prepared to be an active Christian leader in the Church and in society.
Helping Your Kids Stand Strong Against Bullies and Mean Girls
Rarely a week goes by without hearing about some teen who committed suicide or a terrible act of violence because of bullying. Bullying isn’t new. In fact, I would imagine everyone reading this was teased or bullied to the point of tears at some point in their life.
Parents have struggled for years to find ways to help their children deal with the inevitable feelings of sadness, fear or worry that often result from the behavior of bullies. You probably heard “They are just jealous.”, “Ignore her” or “Stand up to him” from your own parents.
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Join the Parenting Like Hannah Fun on Facebook
Part of the expansion of Parenting Like Hannah is our new Facebook page. This page allows me to share with you quick ideas and tips, freebies and a place to interact with each other more easily. In the last week on the Parenting Like Hannah Facebook page, I shared a great link to get lots of free Christian e-books, a fun activity to do with your kids to help them remember the resurrection story and alerted people to a great event in the Atlanta area.
Go to your Facebook page, type in “Parenting Like Hannah” in the search box and click on the “like” button once you get there or click the Facebook icon on this page and join the fun. Facebook is always playing around with our feeds, so make sure you like or comment on a post from Parenting Like Hannah periodically, or it may disappear from your view.
While you are clicking on things, make sure to follow Parenting Like Hannah on Twitter or my personal Pinterest account. The content varies on each social media format, so to get all of the “goodies” from Parenting Like Hannah you will need to follow everything. I hate having the same thing sent to me on everything, so I will try to keep it interesting for you. Start clicking and join the fun!