Invested Parenting Holly M Anderson

Music is a universal language and can teach, help inspire, help calm, lift and soothe the soul. How are you using music in your home? Do your children get to pick music to listen to in the car? Can certain songs at bedtime help with routine? Let's talk about the many ways we can use music in our home as a powerful parenting tool. 

What silly thing can you do or say that will lighten the mood or make your child laugh? Is it pretending that they've turned into a baby or an animal? Do you pretend they have disappeared and you can't see them? What do you do to get a good laugh out of them?

When we talk about what we are happily anticipating we can help our children learn to choose to think and dwell on positive things in the future. Let's talk about some ideas as we teach our children to create this habit of positive thinking. 

Teach by example. Don't worry. No one expects perfection from you. But when you are happy your children notice. What's something you can plan in your day that lightens your mood? Let's talk of some different healthy ideas to take care of ourselves as caregivers and teach our children what HAPPY can look like!

After Paul has been forced out of the land of Thessalonica, he writes to those new saints who are being persecuted. In the 2nd chapter of 1st Thessalonians, we find some golden nuggets of parenting wisdom. Let's dig those up together and see what we find. 

John 5:10 "If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love." He doesn't say...If you keep my commandments then I will love you" What is the difference between abiding in His love and His unconditional love that is always there for us?

John 14:18 "I will not leave you comfortless." How can we comfort our children, even when we aren't there?

How does Christ teach what unconditional love truly is and how can that doctrine help us revaluate how we punish and discipline our children?