I'm taking a break from D2D to write a blog on parenting. More to ponder and pray about while cleaning! Do you ever feel like you want to start over? Clean the slate and start anew? Erase the wrong. This is true of so many areas of my life. I dream about shaking the wrong away as I would in a bad Etch-a-Sketch drawing. How ...
Parenting
Spin a Chore
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“I Hate You!” he said.
"I hate you." He was mad because things weren't going his way. The issue was extremely minor but in his small view of life, he thought the issue was worth exploding over and then he lost it. This isn't the first time that I have heard these words come from my seven-year-old son's mouth. The hurtful phrase started about six months ago and ...
Helping Your Sensory Child Out of a Meltdown
It was the perfect scenario. Or so I thought. We had just left church. Grams was sitting in the back seat beside Bubs (age seven); cuddling the whole way home. We picked up pizza for supper and talked about the fun experiences we had had at church and during the day with family. With everyone sitting around the dinner table, someone mentioned ...
The Things I Hate About Myself
We all have them. Those attributes that cause us to scream out to God, "Why am I like this?". Those things we hate about ourselves. I shared examples of these traits in the post 25 Things (I Don't Want You to Know) About Me. But do you want to know what is interesting? For some reason, I expect my ...
How to Get a Child Into a Carseat without a Screaming Fit
How would you like to put your child in the carseat without a screaming fit? Does just the thought of this sound wonderful? What I am about to let you in on is a secret to success. In order for this to work though, you must set the expectations and be consistent. If you give in, you can kiss your dreams ...
What is it Going to Take?
Some of the reason why my stress level is elevated has to do with our third blessing. This precious three year old is absolutely adorable. (There is a reason why God made him so cute.) But Little Man is trying every patient strand that I have left. Here's some background: If you have followed this blog long, you know that Bubs ...
A Super Grandfather
My uncle and aunt sent me this forward after reading a Facebook post about the trials of raising Little Man. It was perfect! A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson. It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets in the sweet aisle, biscuits in the ...
Train vs Discipline
Not long ago I was doing something (have no idea what...probably some mundane mom task) when the Holy Spirit threw a word at me. Literally it was like a softball hit me in the forehead. train Immediately this verse came to mind. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Then like a ...
Appropriate Ways and Inappropriate Ways
Anger and frustration get Bubs in a lot of trouble. A wise mom suggested that I give him acceptable outlets instead of just telling him "no" or "stop." I needed to train him to know how to handle his hard situations. He was unable to properly handle the emotions and needed training to learn acceptable ...