What They'll Never Forget
You know a way that will help you to be creative in spending time with your children that they really enjoy and leaving memories, is something I did. I never did much with my father because he was always drunk. I was more embarrassed with my father than I ever was happy with him. And so when my children... >Read More
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Do Special Things for Your Children
If relationships equal time and time equal relationships, then be creative in spending time with your kids. Unusual situations that will give you the freedom to talk. Now I’m just going in a few segments share with you some of the things I’ve done. Now remember, I wasn’t creative enough to come up with all of this. I stole... >Read More
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Think & Perceive
You know if we’re going to impact our kids for Christ, we need to know only share spiritual things with them, look for spiritual opportunities to step in and minister to them, to answer their questions, but we need to create opportunities to see how they think, how they perceive things.
Now you might think this is pretty bad, but... >Read More
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Father’s Love
Greatest security of a child today is knowing their father loves their mother and they will not divorce. Here are ways I showed this:
What I always tried to do was to find everything I could to reinforce my love to my children’s mother in their presence. For example, I think every time it came to Christmas or anniversary or... >Read More
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Be Time Creative
You know, I keep on emphasizing this and hammering it home: it takes time, and be creative with your time. This is probably one of the last segments we’ll spend on this, but I want to give you two examples.
Look at flowers and bugs through a magnifying glass. You will be amazed how impressed you will be with the... >Read More
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Undivided Attention
We need to spend time with our children if we’re going to impact their lives. That includes dinner time! I used to sit down at the table with Dottie, before we even had kids, and I’ve always just loved to read the newspaper while I’m eating breakfast and having coffee. And one time Dottie just got fed up with it,... >Read More
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Hope for Adult Children of Divorce
According to a recent report from the Family Research Council, 55 percent of teenagers live in families where their biological parents have rejected one another. Of the 12.8 million teenagers ages 15-17 in the U.S. in 2008, 7 million were living with one birth parent only, with a birth parent and a stepparent, with two cohabiting parents, or with...... >Read More
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Spark A Conversation
You know to impact children with the positive values to change their... >more
Do You Know Your Child?
How well do you know your child? Most mothers really know about... >more
What Do You Fear?
