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5 Reasons You Should Teach Your Children to Help With Chores
What a busy week last week was! Last week looked like this as these kids were put to work volunteered (actually, it was a little of both 🙂 ) to help me clean our abode. 😀 I told Justus to look tired or dramatic at different times depending on what pictures I was taking. This was his interpretation. Children are capable of so much but sometimes we want to protect them from being overworked and the results are kids that don’t know how to work, don’t like to work and feel entitled. In other words, we aren’t doing our children any favors when we do everything for…
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3 Things Your Daughter Can Do While Waiting for Mr. Right
I wrote the following thoughts for the girls in our Castle Keeper club. I trust it is a blessing to you. Chances are you are starting to think of your future and start to wonder who God has for you. Who you will wed, what he looks like and how it’s going to come about and…on and on. It’s how God designed us. Maybe you think that year is far off but is it? Whether that day is 1 or 2 or even 5 years away there are some things are some things you can be doing right now while you are waiting. 1. Pray for your future mate. If…
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Feeling Stressed?
And in this nervous age that we’re living in… Today I got my mind made up to something, “I’ve just got to do it,” and tomorrow it’s a million miles from me; something has done cut in and done this and that. And you have a time, trying to keep your wits together. – William Branham Tension and stress seem to rule the days for many of us. So many things to do, and of course, they should have been done yesterday. With all the gadgets and the conveniences of life, you would think our lives would have become more routine and relaxed but in contrast, it has caused us…
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Habit Training in Ourselves and Our Children – Part II
How does one go about the forming of a habit both in ourselves and our children? Start with focusing on only one thing that you desire to change. In a famous article published in 1983, Anya Bateman tells how she changed her life by focusing on only one thing she wanted to change and then doing it for 21 days. For some of the habits she was trying to form, she kept a journal of her thoughts and excuses and anything else that came up that made her not want to keep her agreement with herself. While working on forming a habit, we must be ever careful not to let ourselves or our…
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Habit Training for Ourselves and Our Children – Part I
Habits. When I think about them I usually am reminded of all the things I do that I don’t want to do and of course there are all the things that I want to do that I don’t do, like exercise (groan), eating less sweets and saying positive things to those around me. But I have also seen the benefit of good habits in my life. Habits that were instilled in me as a child. They are such a part of me that I don’t have to think, I just do. It requires no mental effort on my part because they are so engrained in my brain to do such and such. We all…
