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Week One of our experimental discipline technique has ended. We are well-pleased! It needs a little time to see how we can make it most effective. I also know that this isn't permanent and will eventually become ineffective. But for now, the girl's attitudes have remarkably changed. In the morning when we needed to get out of the house and I needed help with the "babies" I had volunteers out my ear and sometimes without even asking. It is an outward motivation, but their hearts were more cheerful and less complaining. They are each close to the hundred pebble goal for their $5 so today I am having them do extra chores to make their goal. Plus the house needs a serious overall this week and I am too tired to do it all myself. If you read this and think, "I should try this"...pray first and ask God to help you come up with something creative that will be a perfect fit for your family and that helps to foster the areas that need growth in your children. Money management was one of the big things that we needed to work on and this hits their attitude/behavior problems while also helping me to grow them in the area of time and money stewardship. I am so grateful to my Eternal Father for caring enough about the little things in my life that cause me grief and for His Spirit that gives me inspiration and motivation to do and be better. I am most thankful for the New Beginnings He offers me daily! Like Michael Card's song..."He says, 'My child, begin again.'" He knows I am a hopeless screw-up apart from Him and yet He gives me the strength, power, and desire to start again. |
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