Parenting Children - August 19, 2012

Day 7 – Setting Goals and The Importance of Play

Parenting Children Ages 0-10


•  having a vision for our familu life
•  pausing to think about what we want to achieve
•  what will our children’s memories be of us and their home in twenty years, time?

Goals for our family life - When they are adults, will our children associate their upbringing with:
•  having fun together as a family?
•  being listened to?
•  being able to talk through difficult choices?
•  being encouraged and affirmed?
•  being valued for their unique personality and gifts?
•  knowing they are loved?
•  learning important values of honesty, generosity, etc.?
•  learning to think about others?
•  being prayed for?
•  having clear boundaries for their own protection?
•  seeing kindness modeled?

The importance of play
•  using their imagination
•  learning skills
•  playing on their own
•  playing with others
•  indoor and outdoor play
•  limiting screen time

Question:
Did you have fun with your family growing up? When do you have the most fun together as a family now?

From Series: "Parenting Children Ages 0-10"

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  • We need to express love to our child(ren) in all five ways
  • some expressions of love/love languages will be more important to them than others
  • as our children grow older we need to try to recognize their primary and secondary ways of feeling loved
  • pay particular attention to using their principal love languages

Which expressions of love do you think make the most difference to your children?  Which of the five do you find most difficult to give? What would help you show love in this way?

 

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