What is the difference between SURVIVING and THRIVING as you parent your children? Surviving: Getting through today.Thriving: Planning and evaluating the days. Surviving: Reacting to situations.Thriving: Responding thoughtfully to situations. Surviving: Short term thinking.Thriving: Long term thinking. Who gets to survive, and who gets to thrive? Our goal is always for Mom & Dad to thrive and for children to thrive. However, our daily realities look more like, “Mom/Dad survives;…
Continuing off our previous post on Impressing Forever Values, we are addressing the next six freedoms God gives us as we learn to relate to others. Freedom #5 Honor your father and your mother . . . Exodus 20:12 [NIV] Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you…
Our values can be seen by our attitudes and actions. As we raise our children, we hope to impress upon them Forever Values that will steer their decision making. Forever Values are based on principles and stand the test of time and culture. They help us create the atmosphere of our home. God showed His people the true function and beauty of His values known as the Ten Commandments [Exodus…
