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Four Ways to Teach Young Children to be Peacemakers
We aren’t born knowing how to handle conflict. It’s not something we grow into either, like learning to walk or talk. I never could have imagined some of the things I’ve had to say to my preschoolers:...
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What Should We Do When Older Children Don’t Obey? (Obedience, Part 6)
We’ve been looking at obedience for the past month or so. Daniel has explored: Why we are tempted to allow our children to disobey, Why learning to obey is good for our children, What obedience...
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The Blessing of Older Women
There were no older women in our church when I was a young mother. So I looked for my older women in the bookstore. I brought home Edith Schaeffer to hold my hand as I learned how to make a house into...
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Reaching the Heart of a Disobedient Child (Obedience, Part 7)
Disobedience is a like a weed. It’s like the wild morning glory that torments me all summer long. I pull a vine out of a bed of flowers, only to find it sneaking back again two days later. Besides...
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Child Training Boot Camp Giveaway!
It’s time to have our traditional end-of-study giveaway! This time we’re giving away $123 worth of Doorposts products! The winner of this giveaway will receive: Her choice of Plants Grown Up for boys...
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Ingredients of Godly Discipline, Part 1: Preparation
I hear crying coming from the family room, where my three and six-year-old children are playing. I’m sitting in my chair, reading a book, and I don’t really want to be interrupted. But I get up and go...
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Ingredients of Godly Discipline, Part 2: Instruction
Why do we discipline? What is the point of our child-training efforts? It’s not ultimately about good behavior. It’s not about the convenience of having well-behaved children. It’s certainly not...
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Ingredients of Godly Discipline, Part 3: Confession
If we give our children effective, Bible-based instruction, they will come to see how they have sinned. The next step is to encourage them to admit or confess their sin to us and to God. Even...
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Ingredients of Godly Discipline, Part 4: Consequences
As we seek to provide godly discipline for our children, there are times where it’s appropriate for us to devise consequences or allow them to experience the natural consequences of their sin. Why are...
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Transition
Someday our lives will settle down and we will post on a more regular schedule again. (In fact, in just a little more than a month, we’ll be posting everyday while we do our Busy Mamas study of Romans...
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30 Days in Ephesians 6, Day 12: Provoking, Part 1
Children are commanded to obey their parents. That means their parents need to help them learn to obey. But even while we are seeking to do that, we can say and do things that make it much harder for...
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30 Days in Ephesians 6, Day 14: Servants and Masters
We’ve looked at God’s command to children — obey and honor your parents. We’ve studied His command to parents — don’t provoke those who are supposed to obey and honor you. Don’t make obedience and...
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Enough
by Bethany Forster Many lucky grownups like me can look back to a time of childhood bliss (blighted as it may be by pet deaths and mathematics). I imagine you would like your child to look back on the...
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Thirty Days in Psalm 91 for Busy Mamas, Day 12: Catch Up and Optional Lesson
It’s catch-up day again! I’ll bet most of you can make good use of the extra time! If you haven’t done the lesson for Day 9 yet, don’t try to do until I can revise it. I’m reorganizing that lesson to...
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What Should We Do When Older Children Don’t Obey? (Obedience, Part 6)
We’ve been looking at obedience for the past month or so. Daniel has explored: Why we are tempted to allow our children to disobey, Why learning to obey is good for our children, What obedience...
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The Blessing of Older Women
There were no older women in our church when I was a young mother. So I looked for my older women in the bookstore. I brought home Edith Schaeffer to hold my hand as I learned how to make a house into...
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Reaching the Heart of a Disobedient Child (Obedience, Part 7)
Disobedience is a like a weed. It’s like the wild morning glory that torments me all summer long. I pull a vine out of a bed of flowers, only to find it sneaking back again two days later. Besides...
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