The 5 Love Languages And Apology Languages Of Children

Extending Valentines Day to All Year Long!

February 2, 2012

Is it Possible to Extend Valentines Day All Year?? It's February and the first thought that comes to mind is Valentines Day. What if you could extend Valentines Day throughout the year? I'm not just talking about the candy, gifts and cards. One way in partic...

October 4, 2011

Pastor Appreciation is all month long We're going into October and it's been set aside as Pastor Appreciation Month. What do you have in mind for your Pastor? Might I also add, what do you have in mind for his wife also? To often we think of the Pastor in...

May 27, 2011

This is just too good to end. I've been reading the book, The 5 Languages of Apology by Drs. Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas. A few comments from the book I think are noteworthy: Have you noticed asking for forgiveness is extremely hard for certain individuals....

May 19, 2011

Part Two of Teaching Your Child to Apologize If a rule is broken, lay out the terms of the consequence before the rule is broken. Make it age appropriate. I have a lot of my own pottery in our home. As grandparents, the grandchildren were raised to respect ...

May 17, 2011

Part One of "Teaching Your Child to Apologize" from The 5 Languages of Apology by Drs. Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas. Teach your child to accept responsibility for their actions Let's face it. Not all adults have been taught how to apologize. The informa...

Is Letting Your Child Express Anger Being Permissive?

March 22, 2011

Isn't Letting Them Speak About Their Anger Permissive? Think of it this way...would you expect a very young child to express anger in a mature way. After all, they are still 'immature'. "But isn't that why you would make them stop being angry, be...

March 15, 2011

Are you expecting your child up to age six or seven to not get angry or handle anger with maturity? Children Are Limited to Two Ways to Express Anger Verbally = difficult for a parent Behavior (bottle it up and let it leak out in ...

5 Tips to Discover Your Child’s Love Language

February 28, 2011

Discovered their love language? What's next? Five ways to help you in discovering your child's primary love language Watch how your child expresses love to you How they express love to others Listen to what you child requests most often f...

February 23, 2011

"Give my child unconditional love? Sure I do that. After all, I'm their parent!" You will find this little piece of information from Gary Chapman very useful. "Children are primarily emotional beings and their first understanding...

February 21, 2011

Maybe you've heard about the love languages. It sounds like something steamy, but love languages are actually your best way to understand and respond to people in your life. Let's break that down to something more personal...it's your best way to understand and r...