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Brand New Ebook...
FEARLESS TEMPLATE TINKERING
A Guide For the Faint of Heart
By Carrie Rella
$6.95/ebook
If I can learn how to create and tweak templates without any technical training or knowledge, you can too! It's fun and easy! I'll show you how! Includes lots of
online and periodical resources, HTML coding and other aid.
From My Family To Yours...
"FEEDING YOUR FAMILY ON LESS
How To Cut Your Grocery Bill By At Least Half
Without Sacrifice Or Discomfort"
By Carrie Rella
$5/ebook
Learn how I am able to keep costs down for feeding our family of ten to under $150 bi-weekly. It's easy! Includes several helpful printables for your own personal use.
On Our Menu...
Thursday's Meals
Breakfast: Pancakes, milk
Lunch:Ham salad sandwiches on my whole wheat bread, sliced cantaloupe, iced water
Supper:Chicken and Wild Rice Soup, corn muffins, iced water
Friday's Meals
Breakfast:Cornmeal mush, milk
Lunch:Ham & Bean Chowder, sliced wheat bread, iced water Supper:Skillet Scramble, lettuce salad, iced water
Saturday's Meals
Lunch:Order in (Saturday treat!) Supper:Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches on whole wheat, carrot sticks, air-popped popcorn, iced water
Remember! You can eat well on a small budget! Your family's health is worth it!
Cape dresses, infant items, headcoverings/hanging veils, handmade washrags, greeting cards, and more!
NEW STOCK THIS WEEK: Modest girls' dresses, Hair bun tool, more sewing patterns,and crocheted newborn booties in a variety of colors and styles!
If you have any experience with miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death and would like to share your story with others, please contact me. I am looking for contributions
for a (publisher printed) book I'm working on. I will be happy to send you the outline if you're not sure your experience would be a "fit". Thank you in advance!
Some of you might be shaking your heads at such a question. How outrageous, right? Who on earth would be afraid of their darling son or daughter?
No, I am not speaking about children turned bad. I am not referring to those offspring who have a tendency toward illegal activity, or violence. Just your average, everyday, run-of-the-mill child.
So... the question still stands.
Are you afraid of your children?
Well, if you're too much of a "buddy" to them, you might be.
Likewise, if you are easily suckered into a "yes" when your original answer was a "no", you might be, too.
Look at your parenting, critically.
If you're the adult, and feel no guilt in wielding your God-given authority in a loving, responsible fashion, you can rest assured that this article is not for you.
However, if your children tend to make you feel bad, or guilty, when you have to decline a request, listen up.
You do not have to bend. Your children will sometimes think you're the most unfeeling, mean person alive. Get used to it.
As a mother (or father), you have more experience by which you route your family. You are the adult. You know better. Plain and simple.
"But, mom, Kimmy gets to do that at her house! I'm the only one who can't!"
"You never care about how I feel!"
"I haven't gotten to use the computer all day! It's not fair!"
"I hate school work! I am not going to be using this when I'm grown up, anyway!"
As my twelve-year-old likes to say: HUMBUG!
Pray for wisdom, speak with love, straighten your shoulders, and toughen up your backbone.
Your children are depending on you to provide consistent care and godly security. If you feel squeamish and unsure about something they want or desire to do... put your foot down. You're the parent. You're responding as you feel the Lord would have you to. Don't feel bad for it!
Your children might get upset, annoyed or downright angry with you, sometimes. The wonderful thing about youth, though, is that they are more forgiving than we adults sometimes are. One moment there are heated words and tears... the next, smiles and hugs.
Love your "arrows". Teach and train them up in the way they should go!
It is hard but even harder when you don't discipline. I am seeing first hand from friends who have given their kids everything, played friend and let their friends be the most important thing in their lives. They are rebellious, doing drugs, etc. Don't think we are above this - it is the norm. Good Christian families who believe they are doing all the right things but the world still has a strong hold on their kids.
Oh yes I have been and true more of a friend than a parent. Now I am more saner and would truly do it differently with God's help.. You see I was taught to be a pleaser. I pleased every one but me. I am not complaining cause now I am NOT. We do live and we do learn, Praise God for once I was blind but NOW I see. I had to learn what was wrong to make it right. Great post! Thanks for sharing! rilda *U*
This is so true, my stepchildren live with my husband and me, and my daughter. However they have fairly liberal visits with their mother. Their mother is a buddy to them. Buys them anything they want, when she attends an event that the children are in, she is the one whispering and giggling with them throughout. As a result they are extremely unhappy and unsatisfied with everything, because they have no sense of boundaries. thanks for this post, it renews my strength to stand strong and be a PARENT not a buddy!
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