Be Original and Unusual
You know, I often said that if we’re going to impact our children, we need to spend time with them. And one of my philosophies is when you spend time with them, have fun! Do in-ordinary things, do things that other fathers wouldn’t do.
Some examples of what Josh has done are:
Picked his children up from school in a horse... >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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Creative Parenting
>> Watch the other videos from the Creative Parenting series
How do young people spell love? T-I-M-E. They did a study of 300 7th and 8th graders. They wanted to find out how much time does a 7th and 8th grader spend in a meaningful conversation. In other words, in a conversation that is not just meaningful to the father... >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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3 Fabulous Delusions
You know, in raising our children there’s a number of, I call them fabulous delusions that we have with our kids. I want to touch on three of them. This is wrong thinking when it comes to raising a child.
Fabulous Delusion #1: Quality over Quantity
They not only need the quality, they need the quantity. The time in, not just... >Read More
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Do You Know Your Child?
How well do you know your child? Most mothers really know about... >more
What They'll Never Forget
You know a way that will help you to be creative in... >more
What Do You Fear?
