In the previous blogs, I have been talking about protecting our children and our responsibility as parents to cover them emotionally, physically, and mentally. Now we will look how to protect our children spiritually. Moses was put in a basket …

Protecting Our Children Emotionally
Jennifer seemed like a typical teen and never missed a youth function. She seemed by some to be on an emotional roller coaster, but others thought she was a typical teen. In 2018, she got in her car, logged onto …

Protecting Our Children Mentally
We have been learning how to have a covering over our most prized possessions by protecting them as parents. In the last blog, we went over ways to protect our kids physically. Now we’re going to talk about a few …

Protecting Our Children Physically
I remember that day many years ago… I was making my bed and suddenly compelled to stop and pray for our son, Jason, which was a teen at that time. He was at church youth camp and although I felt …

Protecting Our Children
In January of 1975, we lived in McComb, Mississippi. We were eating breakfast when my husband, Joe, asked me to get the transistor radio from Jodi’s bedroom, who was five at the time. He felt we would lose electric from …

Setting a Firm Foundation
When a mother eagle wants her baby to fly, she waits until her eaglet is 80% of his adult size. Then she sets him on the edge of the nest and pushes him off into the wild blue. She watches …

Raising Your Child’s Self-Esteem (Part 4)
There was a kindergarten teacher that wanted to help her class learn about self-esteem. She instructs the kids, “Ok class, I want everyone who thinks they are a dummy to stand up.” A little time goes by… no one stood. …

Raising Your Child’s Self-Esteem (Part 3)
Babies don’t see themselves in a good or a bad way. They’re not concerned if their diaper makes them look fat. They don’t care too much about the appearance of their “ugly cry” or the affects of the sounds and …

Raising Your Child’s Self-Esteem (Part 2)
Stanley Coopersmith did a study of 1,738 boys: Children with high-esteem were clearly more loved at home. They had more individual personalities to grow and develop. They expressed themselves without fear of ridicule. They came from strict families and had …

Raising Your Child’s Self-Esteem
Ben Carson talks about peer pressure from others with the the analogy of a crab tank. They never have to put a lid on a crab tank because if one crab starts to crawl out, the others will grab onto …