“Thanks” to today’s gadgets, more and more kids tend to say, “I don’t know what I’m good at. I don’t know what I like. I’m not interested in anything actually.” (But somehow they are interested …
These days, being able to physically go to school is a treasure.
I don’t know how it is with your kids, but mine look forward to attending school physically, meeting friends in person, and listening to teachers who actually stand in front of them.
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This photo was taken earlier today.
Tomorrow all three of them are back to online learning.
I look at my 3 kids and I feel time flies real fast.
(The eldest turns 18 in less than 2 months!)
Anyway, just the other day, I found my old notes from attending a parenting seminar some years ago.
Am grateful for the reminders.
Here are some of them:
Our children are entrusted into our hands for a short while, for us to raise and teach according to their Redeemer’s plans and will. They are not like paintings or antiques, which we put on display to gain people’s attention and compliments.
Children are like arrows (Psalm 127), and parents will need to release their arrows one day. The question is, have they been prepared to live in the world and to be away from us?
Raising children is a spiritual warfare. Whether or not our children care about spiritual matters depends a lot on whether their parents introduce them since they’re little.
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I often say to my kids, “I don’t know how much time I still have with you. No one knows when we’ll leave the world. But as long as you are still with us, Mommy and Daddy will teach you, as much as possible, things which you need to know and learn, to live in the world without us. You may not like it when we rebuke / tell you off / ask you to stop doing something which we believe is not good for you. Dealing with your resistance / talkbacks are emotionally exhausting, too. But the way I see it, it’s like preparing each of you to go to war, we need to equip and train you as best as we can, while we still can, before you actually leave home. We do what we need to do, because we love you and we are accountable to God to raise you during the limited time we have with you.”
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I know I am still learning along the way.
May God help every parent, and give us the wisdom, mercy and patience needed daily.
I love how little ones laugh out loud. So carefree. As if nothing in the world could ever stop the outburst of their super giggles.
And sometimes, when I see my two kids play and laugh, I think …
Recently I had a chat with a few friends, … and as we talked, some thoughts crossed my mind.
Here’s sharing them with you …
Nearly everything today is about being ‘instant’.
Instant messaging.
Instant noodles.
Instant printing.
Generally, the world …
“I don’t think my child can do it just yet”
“How can my 2-year-old do THAT?”
“Ah, he’s still so small. It’s okay, let me do it for him!”
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Somehow I hear such sentences quite often when it …
This year, my hubby and I would mark our 12th wedding anniversary.
And you know what they say, … the longer you’re married, the less ‘connected’ you both most likely are?
You think?
Well, these are the few …
My grandmother got married in mainland China when she was sixteen years old. No it wasn’t pre-arranged by their parents, and yes it was based on love.
That was in 1941.
Then 60 years later, in 2001, …
As much our kids need to see us as their Mommy and Daddy, I truly believe they also need to see us as husband and wife who need (and enjoy) time with each other, too.
The …
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