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5 Tips for Stewarding a Child’s Heart
As moms we are given a responsibility like no other, we are to be stewarding our child’s heart. Our role as their mom is to instill within the heart love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and self control. We are to set them on a path that will lead to a productive and fruitful adult life. While doing so, we are to protect their hearts and minds from being contaminated with the antithesis of those traits: hatred, sorrow, discord, impatience, cruelty, and instability. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. A steward is one who is given responsibility. Generally, it is used in reference to being a steward…
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100 Must Read Things for Parents of Gifted Children to Read
Being a parent to a gifted child is in itself a gift. Although, there will be many days when we’ll think it’s the opposite. Parenting a gifted child comes with great joys as well as extreme frustrations. Often we are tested in our role as parents. On the one hand we become, seemingly the only advocate for our own children. On the other hand, we struggle to manage the day to day need to fill our child’s mind like we’d fill their stomachs. Knowing how to find a balance between letting them soar, and letting them be children at the same time isn’t an easy task. In fact, it can…
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A Mother’s Role and Why You Should Discipline Your Child
From the earliest of ages, you can begin to discipline your child. The word discipline, means to disciple, to train to act in accordance with rules. There are many forms of discipline, but the purpose of this discussion is to explore why you should begin to discipline your child from the earliest age and continue to teach, lead and guide discipline all the way to adulthood. This post contains affiliate advertisement links. We talk about the role of motherhood and understand that it’s a role that is immersed in protection. A mom cares for her child with diligence. But, that isn’t the only role that mothers are…
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With Wisdom She Seeks to Provide a Custom Education for each Child
Lisa Wilen is homeschool mom and teacher at Joyful Journey Christian Homeschool where she is homeschooling 2 of her 3 children, all girls. Ashlynn age 17, and Holly age 11 both are educating at home, while Jenna age 13 is attending their local public school. When Lisa’s first daughter, Ashlynn was 4 she was already able to read fluently. Lisa was concerned that kindergarten in the public school would be too boring for her. Lisa realized that she had invested time and energy teaching her at home, she wondered, Why not continue? Deciding to take it one year at a time, they proceeded with home education as their educational choice. She…
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Training Your Child in Peace
We, my husband and I, endeavor through training our child in peace. I believe to truly know peace one must know and obey God the Creator through His Son Jesus Christ. My aim as a mother along with my husband is to point our child to the cross so that he can know Christ and the Father. Our hope is that through teaching him he will come to know the peace that passes all understanding because he will develop a strong faith in God, choose obedience to His will, and ultimately reach the eternal peace of a heavenly home. “All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall…
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A Ready Guide for Parents of a Gifted Child
Raising a Gifted Child, Book Review Being an homeschool mom to an academically and creatively gifted child can seem quite intimidating. Especially if, like me, the mom doesn’t feel quite qualified enough for the task at hand. Finding a how to guide would be a great help wouldn’t it? Disclosure: I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. I was not compensated for this review however I may receive a small commission on products purchased through links to external sites. That’s pretty much what Raising a Gifted Child by Carol Fertig is. A guide for parents of a gifted child. It has become a ready reference…
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Tips from the Coach for Keeping Gifted Children Active
Interview with Chris Quickert from The HomeSchool Gym As a mom to an academically gifted child, I sometimes wonder if I keep him active enough. I know that physical activity is vital to a healthy body. Given the choice of outside play and indoor play, he will usually choose indoor play. Although, he can at times spend hours swinging on the swing. I want to make sure that I am not only providing opportunities for him to be active but that I am guiding him to be motivated to be physically active as he gets older and into his adulthood. I’m blessed to live near a large metropolitan city.…
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Training My Child in the Spirit
As a Christian, one who fervently believes in the sovereignty of the power and omniscience of God in Heaven, how could I do anything but teach my son spiritual things? To do otherwise would be hypocritical and deny the power of God. “Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6 But how can one know which way to train up that child?” “And you, fathers, do now provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4 There it is. The only resource…