Rivergallery's Growth - Heart Tying Strings Challenge

Rivergallery's Growth

Nov. 18, 2007

Heart Tying Strings Challenge - Week 3

November 12th - Week Three

This weeks assignment: Become a student of your child.

Motivation -
Deuteronomy 4:9 (NIV)
Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.

Explanation -
This week, your job is to observe your child's heart. Become a student of your child. WATCH his or her responses and make sure they are cheerful and obedient and he or she has his or her heart turned toward you. Watch for things like eye rolling, sighing, mumbling under his breath, subtle disobedience, slowness, and other passive aggressive behavior. Write it down or post about it and determine to address this subtle behavior and make sure your child's heart is turned toward you. (Now of course we should all be doing this all the time, but this is designed to be training US as moms to be more observant and not so distracted) Please let us know how it goes even if you want to be vague. How did your observation skills improve, post one thing you learned about your child's heart.

Purpose -
Remove hidden rebellion. Be a super aware parent. Get to know your child better, especially his/her heart. Turn your child's heart to you so you can turn it towards God.

Final Objective-
Have a Child who loves God and grows up into a strong Christan adult.

Additional Information - We are all growing together on this journey, the message-board is full of anecdotes, and ideas for this week. So for EXTRA CREDIT take a look around and post a link to something that helped you with your child this week.

Links/Book Recommendations
The main page here - http://www.raisinggodlytomatoes.com
Child Training Tips by Reb Bradley

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I am a- Christian wife and Momma of two, artist, daughter, poet, baker, hiker, granddaughter, gardener, homemaker, dog owner, college graduate, sister, smiler, lover, friend, sommersaulter, swinger (as in swings!), aunt, creator, researcher, bather (I love baths), tea drinker, beer brewer, blackberry picker, canner, sewer, quilter, swimmer, riviter see Van's Aircraft RV9-A, and more.

INTERESTS
ART
My most current Art

Art, Poetry with links to my other sites

HOMESCHOOLING
My homeschooling website.

I worked in daycare, as a preschool teacher, and at the elementary school as a special needs assistant, and I have a big heart for children.

WRITING
Poems have been published in a few small publications. My Original Schoolhouse Thesis for my BS degree in Sociology was published and is in the Linfield College Library. I have a group of poems I would like to self publish sometime. Other than that I have a novel that has the plot done but lots of discription is not there, but I am bored with it right now.

HEALTH
homebirthing, vaccinations, homeopathy, herbology, etc.

RESEARCH
I love researching things!

OUTDOORS
Camping, hiking, photography, clam digging, rolling down hills with my sons, bike riding, walking etc. The ocean still feels like home to me, when I get on the beach I feel that is where I belong in the world.

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