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Posts tagged ‘family relationships’

Apr 18

Deconstructing Priceless

I have a growing collection of  reviews of parenting memoirs: women (100% so far) who have written about their child rearing experiences. Most are entertaining. All are helpful to some degree or another. They all claim to have been desperate, at wit’s end, or deep in the throes of failure before seeing the stars. Tiger Mom was the exception. She started sure-footed in the stars and gracefully slid into reality.

Stories from those endeavoring to maintain biblical principles all along (married before children, committed to biblical family principles regardless of whether children are in the home, personal lifestyle aligned with spiritual priorities) are neither as common, nor as entertaining. They are, however, priceless gems, when you hear of one. These are not the people writing books, apparently. Today is a blip of encouragement for the slow, steady, consistent process of building an environment where scriptural interest is part of the air, flavors the mealtimes, cuddles in with bedtime stories, leads the way in family activities, and is anonymous in the flashy world of modern parenting. Read more

Jan 21

Survival Living

 

Parents often downgrade the ongoing requirements of civilized living to chores for one of two reasons, 1) the tasks in and of themselves are not rocket science and children can usually do them, and/or 2) the adults do get tired of doing the same things over and over and want some relief. Both are woefully inadequate reasons for minimizing the immensity and value such tasks offer life.

Every individual in a family is crucial to God’s design of that family and every individual is completely responsible to master the basic living tasks that comprise civilized life’s work. The sooner any family member welcomes and takes on such living tasks as important elements of their own personal good life, the better everyone will be.

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