What You Can Learn About Life From Your Child

Written by Marie Magdala Roker


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I may not know time, but I know when all my favorite tv shows are on.

My friendships can be broken and mended without parental involvement.

Sometimes, parents have more fun thenrepparttar kids at parties, amusement parks and other events.

Know how to push your parents’ buttons.

Five servings a day can consist of pizza, ice cream, french fries, fruit juice (or soda) and cookies.

Clothing should be optional.

Never tell me anything you don't want me to repeat in public.

Parents need to be better listeners too!

Parents make a big deal of little things.

You can never have too much candy.

It's ok to eatrepparttar 110904 same thing for lunch for a year.

A nickel is worth more than a dime because it's bigger.

A messy room has character.

There is a McDonald's restaurant wherever you go.

Why do you need to know how to tie your laces, when there are velcro straps on your shoes?

The best part of birthday parties arerepparttar 110905 party favors.

It's much easier to wake up early on weekends, then weekdays.

Scarves, gloves, hats, and sometimes jackets will get lost at school.

Fish are friends, but they die too soon.

The telephone is our enemy.

Five minutes is a long time to wait.

Brushing your teeth should not take longer than 30 seconds.

The response to "How was your day?" will almost always be "Good."

Why should bread have crust?

You don't need to userepparttar 110906 bathroom until you're out ofrepparttar 110907 house or inrepparttar 110908 car.

Keys, credit cards, and cell phones like to play hide and seek.

Green colored food is yucky.

Last, but not least, you can never get too many hugs or kisses throughoutrepparttar 110909 day.

Marie Magdala Roker is an Academic and Personal Development Coach and Certified Breakthrough Parenting Instructor who works with moms, teens, and college students and helps them empower themselves to get from where they are to where they want to be in life


Do You Have A Vision?

Written by Craig Binkley


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To have a multi-generational vision, there must be a few, essential things in place.

1) You must already have—or plan to have—children, because without them there is no generation to follow in your footsteps. (This is a given, wouldn’t you agree?) 2) You must teach your childrenrepparttar vision, lest it die. 3) You should have a true desire to see your children and your grandchildren supercede your level of “success”. I am not just talking financially, but as a child of God. 4) You must have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We must place our trust in Him if we are ever to expect our vision to become reality. Plain & simple.

Now I’ll briefly expand onrepparttar 110903 list above.

Item #1 is a no brainer.

It is impossible to have a multi-generational vision without children being involved. Unfortunately, many people today consider children a “burden”, instead of what they truly are: blessings! Personally, I consider debt to be a burden, don’t you? But many people have it backwards. In fact, those same people will go so far as to reject blessings (children), but APPLY for curses (debt). Psalm 127:4-5 states “As arrows are inrepparttar 110904 hand of a mighty man; so arerepparttar 110905 children of thy youth. Happy isrepparttar 110906 man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak withrepparttar 110907 enemies inrepparttar 110908 gate.” Wow! Picture that!

Item #2 is very important. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 states: “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest byrepparttar 110909 way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” Tip: In other words, they need to spend time with you learningrepparttar 110910 various multi-generational tasks and beliefs. Teach them of those who came before them in history who keptrepparttar 110911 faith. (Hebrews Chapter 11 is a great place to start.)

I believe that #3 and #4 go hand in hand. By having a personal relationship with Jesus and seeking His will for our lives, I truly believe this desire to seerepparttar 110912 future generations succeed us will come.

There are many organizations and ministries that offer wonderful resources on this life-changing topic. My favorite (andrepparttar 110913 one that I recommend every parent or future parent check out) is Vision Forum Ministries - http://www.visionforumministries.org.

Doug Phillips,repparttar 110914 founder of Vision Forum, is a leader inrepparttar 110915 field of providingrepparttar 110916 timely tools men need today to train their children, so that they might have a multi generational vision for their families.

To sum up: seek God’s will for your life.

Create a vision for your family. It won’t berepparttar 110917 easiest road you’ve ever traveled down, butrepparttar 110918 rewards will be far-reaching!

I will close with this quote from Matthew 7:14: “Because strait isrepparttar 110919 gate and narrow isrepparttar 110920 way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Craig Binkley – husband, father and home business owner assisting in the restoration of the “traditional” family through home business ownership. http://www.bornagainbargains.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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