Purposeful Parenting. Building Godly Character.
One of my top priorities as a homeschooling mom was godly character building. Little did I know that God was going to use my kids and my homeschool to build MY character, as well! In the process of teaching and training my children, I often had those character-building days. You know, the ones where the difficult child was more difficult… Read More
Homeschooling is a wonderful opportunity to teach and train our kids’ minds, and also their hearts. Often though, we get so busy and caught up with things, that we forget some important things every Homeschool Mom must remember! Here are 8 Things Every Homeschool Mom Must Remember 1. Regardless of how qualified you may or may not feel, the best… Read More
What is character building? The definition of character building is “requiring effort or endurance to a degree that strengthens or improves a person’s character”. And Character training is one of the most important things we can do when raising our kids is to train them in character. Character training should be purposeful, but sometimes it happens when we aren’t being intentional. … Read More
Managing your home, family, and homeschool is not easy! At times it can be stressful or even overwhelming. If we’re not careful, we can be facing homeschool mom burnout. However, with some thought and planning you will find there are some super simple routines to reduce homeschool Mom stress. I’m going to share a few simple routines that helped me… Read More
Through the ups and downs of parenting our eight kids, I would often get discouraged with one (or all) of the kids, because their behavior showed a lack of character. It seemed that despite all my efforts, my character training wasn’t working! Many times when going to a conference to speak on ‘Character Training’, I would tell my husband that… Read More
As a professional counselor, one of the questions I address most often with parents is “What do I do when my child has a meltdown, throws a temper tantrum or appears so emotionally distraught they can’t hear my instruction or correction?” How do you teach a child to regulate their emotions as an important part of character training? Managing emotions… Read More
Most moms I know, including myself, would make great professors. We’re naturally skilled in the art of lecturing. The words flow effortlessly and profusely from our mouths, especially when we perceive a character flaw in our youngster. In all that, however, we aren’t growing character with teachable moments as well as we could! Take the recent “Episode of the Dirty… Read More
For the last month, we have seen SO many fantastic posts on building character in our kids! What a blessing to have these kinds of resources to draw from. Now comes the hard part: putting the things that we know we need to do into action, and setting the example in character training. Character building sounds like an excellent idea… Read More
How do you respond when your kids won’t listen to wisdom? My son, give attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding. Proverbs 5:1 I’m sure it is no accident that, as I write this, one of my sons is fiercely bemoaning his current misfortune. Which, among other things, is not being allowed to attend youth group. His wails… Read More
Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of the goal when we are in the trenches of parenting. We forget that our job is one of discipleship. As a mother of four grown children, I understand. We had four children in 39 months, and I remember one day thinking, “Am I ever going to do anything besides feeding, diapering, cleaning,… Read More
My name is Kathie, and I am glad you stopped by. I am a stay-at-home mom of 8 wonderful kids, and have been homeschooling for 31 years. I hope that my blog will be a blessing and encouragement to you! Read More…