THE HIGH ROAD TO BETTER BEING for your Child

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Charles Francis Adams, 19th century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: "Went fishing with my son today--a day wasted."

His son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence.

On that same day, Brook Adams made this entry: "Went fishing with my father--the most wonderful day of my life!"

Togetherness. Observation. The child is watching and feeling and…

well...

Time with our children is a carving, a shaping, an opportunity that once gone cannot be retrieved.

So what parts of your child are you creating to improve…what lessons of love are you sharing and often enough to count? We all need to ask the question and God willing we will give the right answers.

Therefore, some questions to ask...

Are you raising a child with too much arrogance or too little self-esteem.

Certainly say the quote below and say it again to your child if they are prone to being a braggart.

“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.” (Will Rodgers)

And then there is the question of affection and how to show it.

A quick hug. A note on a pillow that reads, “Thanks for being our son. Thanks for being our daughter. A spoken word, “I was so proud of you…I’m proud of the fine young man (or lady) you’re becoming…I’m proud of you for many reasons and I just had to tell you.” Little verbal prods for excellence embedded in words of praise.

And the list goes on.

And what we must all do as parents and grandparents...

Spread the art of admitting mistakes. “I was wrong.” Can you say it?

If not, your child probably can’t either. And a household filled with people who must always be right is a hearthstone filled with chaos.

Have you taught your child the sweet scent of otherness?

How inclined is the average child to give rather than take? To share a toy? Watch another television program to make someone else happy? Give up something to make another playmate glad?

I still remember one woman who had come to me for counseling.

Forty years later she still remembered being berated by her mother for sharing some cookies with a playmate. “I made those cookies for you and don’t you forget it!” her mother had screamed. And she didn’t forget it. And she grew up to be a very selfish, self-centered me first human being.

And speaking of feeding cookies...there is other kind of feeding going on and sometimes it is a feeding frenzy and the lessons being taught stain and stagger a child for a lifetime.

The height of mistaken teaching...

The height of arrogance... is the lowliness of prejudice. Even if you are stuck with prejudices because they have been with you too long, don’t use your child as a conduit to a new generation.

If only adults could shut up about their prejudices for a generation maybe prejudices could die.

And yes…

Don’t believe your child will automatically be a compassionate and considerate person. Kids can be cruel, unkind and sometimes plain sadistic.

Listen to any group of children playing and eventually one or more will show they’re past masters in the art of insult.

Don’t let your children fall into the trap.

Teach them that if they can’t say something nice to say nothing at all.

Tell them that as Christans they are held to a higher level of behavior.

Is your child a wonderful person? Good!

Let your child know you see it, recognize it and appreciate it.

And praise...such a wondrous instrument...

Then say something like, “You are cute (or handsome, smart, clever, talented, etc.) but don’t take (too much) pride in it. Rather give God credit for it.

Proverbs - Chapter 22:6
“Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. "
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STARTED SUNDAY MARCH 5, 2011 Serialization of another book SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING

This book, SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING, is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.” (Susanne K. Langer)

MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE.

“I am come that they (you) may have life and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

Anyone who lives long enough gets older. There are no other options. How we handle the adventure is filled with options.

Keep both eyes on life, and not on the calendar. Admit your age, but don’t admit to the fallacy that you have to act like it. Saying, “I’m 39 and holding,” is more tragic than humorous because it argues that age has no attributes.

V. Neil Wyrick

Below a quote from it…

“Be like the farmer who, when asked what he was building, replied, “if I can rent it, it’s a rustic cottage. If I can’t, it’s a cow shed.”

It’s called attitude and it can make us prematurely old or longer young. For truly, things aren’t just what they are, but rather how we choose to see them.”

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A quote below from tomorrow’s ONE A DAY blog entitled HOW TO BE A HAPPY CAMPER IN A SOMETIMES UNHAPPY

“Outside a town in New Zealand there is a sign that reads, “Drive carefully. We have two cemeteries but no hospital.”

So it is on the road to life. We do have a heavenly hospital and a heavenly physician and we can be healthier and happier if we just…allow ourselves to reach that point where we admit that when we get in a wrestling match with God we should pray to lose. “


“An ongoing revolution taking place in the living room of the heart.

Not locking in sins. Not locking out God.

Believing that God can take a pig of a person and turn him or her into a pearl of great price. “

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