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March 9th, 2010

Your Child's Heart: How do you Find the Time? Part

In the previous posts in this series of “Keeping Your Child’s Heart”  I’ve pointed out that the ultimate goal of gaining our child’s heart is to make disciples of Christ.  In order to do that we must discipline and instruct them (Ephesians 6:4).  We can do neither of these without spending both quality and quantity [...]

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  1. Your Child’s Heart: What’s Your Responsibility Part 2
  2. Your Child’s Heart Requires Time
  3. Do You Have Your Child’s Heart? Part 2
  4. Do You Have Your Child’s Heart? Part 1
  5. Your Child’s Heart: What’s Your Responsibility? Part 1

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March 2nd, 2010

The Pearls and Your Child’s Heart

First I would like to say that it was not my intent to post about this today or ever, really.  However, because of recent events and since I recently posted about discipline, I would simply like to clarify our family’s position on the Pearls.

Before I begin let me clarify my actual, personal experience.

I was given [...]

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  1. Your Child’s Heart: What’s Your Responsibility Part 2
  2. Do You Have Your Child’s Heart? Part 1
  3. Your Child’s Heart: How do you Find the Time? Part 1
  4. Your Child’s Heart: What’s Your Responsibility? Part 1
  5. Do You Have Your Child’s Heart? Part 2

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March 1st, 2010

Preschoolers in Church and Coming Soon

This Sunday I stayed home from church with some sick children (Amber 13, Matthew 10 and Carter 8).   When Mark and the rest of the children returned home we sat down and ate lunch and discussed the service with our children.

Mark mentioned that during the sermon Colby had asked “Dad, what’s he saying?” a few [...]

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  1. Dressing for Church
  2. Giggles from the Grove: Death and Heaven
  3. Worshiping with Toddlers
  4. Coming July 2010: Wordless Wednesday
  5. Not Me Monday

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February 18th, 2010

Your Child's Heart Requires Time

Esther who blogs at  MATROZKEPZO (and holds the distinction of being the only foreign language blog, that I know of, to have Raising Olives in their blog roll) left this insightful comment on my last post in Your Child’s Heart series.  I thought it was good enough to warrant it’s own post.

Many people, even Christian [...]

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  1. Your Child’s Heart: What’s Your Responsibility Part 2
  2. Your Child’s Heart: What’s Your Responsibility? Part 1
  3. Your Child’s Heart: How do you Find the Time? Part 1
  4. Do You Have Your Child’s Heart? Part 1
  5. Do You Have Your Child’s Heart? Part 2

18 comments
February 17th, 2010

Simple Birthday Cakes

For a number of reasons we have chosen to keep birthday celebrations fairly simple at our home.  We have many special traditions and activities for each birthday, but a few years ago I discovered a way to allow children to participate in creating their birthday cake while saving me lots of time and energy.

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  1. The Train Cake
  2. Tools for the Frugal Family – Sale
  3. Yard Sale Saturday
  4. Cranberry Pie Recipe
  5. Top Secret Mission Accomplished

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