One thing I have learned as a mom is that loving our children and building them up is not an eighteen year journey that hits a dead end and suddenly we can turn and walk away. Parenting has different stages and seasons. It may look different at age five than it does at age thirteen…
There are days when you think none of the training you have done has made any impact on the lives of your children. There will always be those days, when children are over-tired, cranky or miserable or you are anxious, stressed or feeling unable to cope. My advice as grandma would be to take a…
by Lisa Brown At age eight my mom gave me a piece of paper that said, “I am somebody because God does not make junk.” I was feeling like nobody liked me and I wasn’t good at anything. My mom made my day and I still have this piece of paper to remind me. I…
Post By Tanya My Co-Host From godscharacter.wordpress.com I have noticed that there are some people who measure the worth of a person based on what they can do, what they have or who they are. I remember growing up being ashamed of people knowing where I lived because I was poor and lived in…
By Janis Cox In order to have a sense of self-worth, children need to know that they can indeed do things for themselves. Don’t stifle their drive. I grew up with a lovely, caring mother and father. My mother loved to serve and I am sure she had the gift of help. She did everything…
By Grace Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder are nervous. They are concerned about everything. Trying to figure out what to wear in the morning can send them into a fit of tears. Difficulty with an art project might end with screaming and running into another room. Because of this, they are very hard on themselves…
Desiree Taylor It seems like yesterday this picture was taken. These boys are now fifteen and twenty years old. I used to hate it when the older moms would say, “It goes by so fast.” I have to confess I didn’t believe that then when every day seemed to last forever. I have found this…
Beth Biggers I hear it preached in churches. The message is there on the regular be it subtle or overt: Self esteem = Bad. Self flagellation = Good. Now, maybe I am some kind of rare exception (although I doubt it,) but my struggle is not with believing that I am not as great as…
Measuring Your Child’s Value By Beth Demme Early in our children’s elementary school experience I learned to dread the weekly folder. Very early. Probably around week two of kindergarten. My son has always been … verbal. Despite living without language for the first year of his life (he lived in a Russian orphanage) and then…
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My first year as a mother was one of the most difficult years of my life. Before I discovered I was expecting our first child, my husband and I moved over 2,000 miles away from both of our families. After coming home from the hospital I tried to jump…
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