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Booting The Backtalk
Are your children talking back more and more? Here is a trick to help your child stop and think about their responses before a mistake takes place.
Read Post →Something My Son Didn’t Want Me to See
How about this? This is a really encouraging story. Last night I got one of those rare and precious gifts that become unimaginable as your children age. You know, when your kids are little you can count on at least one peanut butter and jelly kiss or hand crafted, crayon smudged love note a day, depending on how many kids you have. But when you hit those teen years, love notes are either not on their radar or otherwise directed!
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Sexualizing 7 Year Old’s – Ugh!
They are at it again! Abercrombie & Fitch have a new kind of bikini for 7 – 14 year old girls and it’s padded and push-up. Ugh, ugh, ugh. I am tired of this company. They have been doing this for years. A & F has had so many opportunities to change their sexualizing ways but have refused (see Today Show video below). In fact, it seems like they almost enjoy the sensationalized attention they receive. As a mom I will not allow my children to shop there and if you didn’t either, we probably wouldn’t have to put up with this company in a few years. Make it your mombligation! Refuse to purchase their products in the hopes that they will cease to exist.
Read Post →Mombligation: Walking Your Child Through Tough Decisions
Hey there! Before we dive into the blog, we wanted to make sure you were able to get to this article about7 Things a Mom Can Do To Make Her Children Strong. The link in today’s Espresso Minute comes here instead of going to the article, so we didn’t want you to miss it! Ok, now onto the Momligation you won’t want to miss… Two of my children were adopted when they were 9 and 12 years old. They both had a rough start to life and had to work through some training that they missed in their younger years. One of the bigger issues was in the area of obedience. I was really frustrated with their inability to learn from mistakes. No matter what I did if they wanted something they took it. Finally, their counselor explained to me why I was seeing toddler behavior in tweenage actions. Children go through several stages in understanding obedience. A child cannot skip stages and must progress one by one through them all. The stages are: Stage 1 – I see it, I want it, I take it. Stage 2 – I see it, I want it, I take it but I …
Read Post →i Am A Generation iY Groupie Parent
I was at a convention recently and heard a fascinating summation of a new breed of parents. Of course, what captured my attention and scared me was that I could see myself in some of what he was describing. The speaker was Dr. Tim Elmore. The topic was parenting the iY Generation. iY’s are the children born in the latest wave (after 1990) of Generation Y or the Millennials. Elmore has done a lot of homework on this generation. I would know because with five iY children in my family, I have my own subset of the population to test his theories on. However, it was not Elmore’s analysis of the iY children but of their parents that you might want to think about. He calls us Groupie Parents. I am afraid he has good cause. Just as a groupie idolizes a rock star, groupie parents idolize their children. I was deeply convicted and am rapidly making some parenting adjustments on my 5iY’s as I now call them. Here is the short take on Groupie Parents from Dr. Elmore’s book Generation iY Our Last Chance to Save Their Future.
Read Post →Children before Marriage? Think Twice!
I thought this was a very interesting article from CNN and I would love to further question the constituents polled by Pew. I wonder why so many Millennials value raising children above marriage? Is it because they are discouraged about marriage? Have they experienced more relationship heartache than previous generations? Or are they just following a popular trend? It seems dangerously out of order. I have a theory that there are several “markers of maturity.” This first marker is getting a job and taking care of yourself. The second is marriage and learning to selflessly care about someone other than yourself. The third marker is the hardest–raising children. It is challenging because it is very sacrificial. As a parent you should care more about your child than yourself. Of course, with each marker you pass you become a better, wiser, and hopefully, less selfish person.
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