Your family can “LIGHTEN THE LOAD” of the wait staff. Your family can BLESS and INVEST in their lives. Our family dining aboard The Disney Cruise, 2002 We are called as Believers to be a light in the world and to demonstrate our love through our actions. This applies to everything we do- even our dining experiences. Yes, the wait…
DetailsOooh…this is going to be so helpful. Can your children of all ages dine respectfully and comfortably in this type of setting? Well, that’s not exactly the point of this blog post, but keep reading to learn how your children can behave well AND engage in conversation with others. Your kids should know BEFORE going…
DetailsThe family dinner table is a place to be intentional to develop communication and people skills. Dine together often. It is extremely important that we take inventory of our own conversational skills and those of our children. Family album photo from 2001, kids range in ages from 1 – 12. Family Fondue Night… a longer…
DetailsThe family dinner table is a place to be intentional to develop communication and people skills. Dine together often. And as you do, use it as a time to continually assess communication skills. In yesterday’s blog post I talked about equipping the kids with skills to help in situations where a group conversation may be dominated by…
DetailsToday, I’m going to talk about another type of TRAINING AHEAD: Anticipating potential situations that could occur according to observations in patterns of behavior and specifically training ahead to know how to wisely handle them. Have you ever been with friends where someone dominates the conversation? Or the wife continually interrupts the husband? Or someone “one-ups”…
DetailsI came across a few pictures that illustrate an important teaching tip that makes mentoring our kids MUCH more EFFECTIVE and INDEPENDENT. Teaching tip: Don’t Block Their View. Make sure you are in a position where you are not blocking their view of the very thing you are trying to teach them. I see this…
DetailsYou can read an updated “about me” here but I have kept this in tact as it represents where my family and I were within the first few days of beginning Cultivating A Home. This post does give different details than the current “about me” page. So, read both if you have an extra few minutes…
DetailsCirca 2000. John, Alexis, and Kelsey. Something that I started doing when the children were wee little thangs… was to memorize Scripture.. put to our OWN tunes.. while trying to laugh along the way… making it a fun experience and memory. The picture above shows a little of what it was like. We’d memorize a…
DetailsOn Facebook yesterday, I nominated MYSELF for a “FUN MOM Alert.” It’s something that I usually write in the comments section, under OTHER moms’ photos or posts on Facebook, when I see that they are clearly doing something FUN with their children. I just simply write “Fun Mom Alert” and leave it at that. Yesterday was one of those days for me, so…
DetailsI’ve spent several years, sloooooowly ENGAGING the Psalms. I used the word engaging on purpose to better describe that I was not just merely reading; I was diggin’ in to this rich book of the Bible. I was INTENTIONALLY looking for the characteristics of God. I was also asking “Just WHY is THIS particular Psalm…
DetailsWe’ve all sat in church near a family that was blind to their noises and commotion. You know what I mean… the candy wrappers, the feet kicking the back of the pew, the sound of markers squeaking or crayons going back and forth on paper… and that’s not even to mention talking, laughing, getting up and down…
DetailsWhen my oldest son John was two years old we were at a youth event at someone’s home. He spilled his drink on the floor in the kitchen. It amazed me that he quietly reached for a towel and cleaned up the mess all on his own. He’d been TRAINED AHEAD on how to handle…
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