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Several tips to help parents of young children promote literacy at home.
*adapted from My First Week of School by Derrick Gantt. by Karen O’Connor, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. (Proverbs 3:5, NIV) One Sunday I broke down in tears at a prayer meeting at church and asked what I could do to restore my adult son to me. He had made some chilling decisions and I was powerless to change him. A dear older woman hurried across the room, sat down beside me, and slipped her arm around my shoulder. “Your parenting in the flesh is over,” she said softly. “It’s time to parent him in the Spirit. Pray for your son and trust God to do what you cannot do — and He will,” she added confidently. Continue reading Restoring Relationships With Adult Children Stage One: Experimentation
In classic temperament studies, researchers looked at basic observable traits of personality that can be observed from birth. One of those initial traits of reactivity was described as “mood”. Babies come into this world with an identifiable mood as part of their personality. This normal continuum can be described as positive at one end to negative at the other end. We come into the world with a positive or negative way of responding to life. This initial response does not seem to change over time. Continue reading 7 Steps For Coping With A Negative Child
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