Author: becomingthegentleparent
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12 SCREEN-FREE WAYS TO CONNECT WITH YOUR TEENS AND TWEENS
Parents of teens and tweens often lament the fact that it feels hard to connect with their growing children because of technology. I have plenty of opinions about using tech that I will share in another post, but for those of you trying to make a concerted effort to connect with your teens and tweens,…
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5 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR CHILD’S EMOTIONAL HEALTH
Raising kids in modern times means we have so much to think about. How much screen time is too much? Is it safe to leave my kids with a sitter? How can I share the love of Christ with them? How can I raise them to become decent humans as adults? One of the things…
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HEALTHY MOM LIFE-MANAGING THE HOUSEHOLD
One of the most important lessons that I have learned as a mom is that it’s not necessary to have a perfectly clean home. The laundry does not need to be color-coded and ironed and put away instantly. Some toys sprinkled throughout the house is not really a big deal, and if I let some…
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DON’T LET YOUR DREAMS KILL YOUR DREAM, PART 1
I have so much to process right now, and I don’t know how to express all that we’ve experienced and been through in the past 4 years. But here’s a snapshot of the past 2 years. The Lord put a dream in our hearts to start a farm. And 4 years ago, we followed that…
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DON’T LET THE DREAM KILL THE DREAMS, PART 2
We tried to sell the land. It didn’t work. We tried working with a realtor, but no one was willing to list it for what we wanted, or even at a bare minimum, what we owed. We sold our rabbits and chickens. (Except for my oldest son’s favorite rabbit. We kept her. More on that…
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YOUR IDENTITY IS FOUND IN CHRIST:A CASE AGAINST PERSONALITY TESTS AND SPIRITUAL GIFTS TEST
Have you ever taken a personality test? What about a spiritual gifts test? Or maybe you’ve completed a StrengthsFinder Test or an Enneagram test. I’ve done them all. I’ve completed each of them so many times that I can tell you one thing is for certain. None of these tests holds the answers you are longing…
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HOW CAN A MOM FOCUS ON HER HEALTH?
I remember when my third child was born. I was so tired that it was a chore to function each day. I worked from home and was back working 3 days after I gave birth. There was no “napping when the baby napped” for me. I had a 5-year-old and a 22-month-old and a newborn…
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IS YOUR PRIDE KEEPING YOU FROM GOD’S BLESSING?
This season has been really hard financially. We live mostly paycheck to paycheck and have received a lot of help from our families off and on. It’s not something we’ve had to do much of in our 15 years of marriage. In fact, most of the time it’s been easy. I worked a 9-5 that…
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THERE ARE GIANTS IN THE LAND
After about 3 months of living in the promised land, I want to tell you something important. We often think that stepping into the promised land is easy. That’s it’s going to be a vacation. But I want you to know that there are giants in the land. When God spoke over us that we…
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4 KEY WAYS TO KEEP KIDS HEALTHY
We all want our kids to be healthy. We want them to thrive in life. But what does it take? When I had my first son I thought the key to healthy kids was some sort of mysterious thing. My oldest got sick a lot and while I followed all of the typical advice, it…