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by Ruth Willms
Your child is special. There is no one just like him or like her in the whole world. Did you know that?
I hear that everyone has a twin somewhere. There may be someone who looks a lot like us, but we each have our own DNA and personality. It’s just a little bit of difference that makes us unique. I’m still amazed that of all the people in the world that have come and gone that are and will come, no one is just like my daughter and no one matches my son completely. And it’s their uniqueness that makes them so special.
We all ooh and ah over our newborns and look upon them as pretty special. But it’s when they grow older, and caring for them has taken a toll on us that we are tempted to put them aside a little bit. On days when a strong willed three year old enforces his ‘no’ by throwing your vase at the wall, or a five year old begs you to read ‘The Cat in The Hat’ for the umpteenth time, you may begin to take their specialness for granted.
But this is exactly when they need your unwavering love and affirmation. Good thing God loves us in our trying moments. He lets us know He loves us and He builds us up with His Word: He affirms us.
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The time has come! The precious baby you have been waiting for has arrived either through blood, sweat and tears or adoption. Either way, it is a blessing and your life will never be the same!
I don’t know about you but I worried from day one how to raise my child to be responsible, caring, yet creative, independent and able to think for herself in this world where conformity is the norm.
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Behavior!
My wife and I have had a great deal of experience, both in our own homeschooling and in relating to other homeschooling families. One of the more serious things we have dealt with is the concern of parents over the behavior of their children in public. Of course we should train our children to interact well with others or to exhibit Christian values. Those are good things. The problem comes when the behavior concerns have little to do with the children
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Many homeschool moms struggle with discouragement. It is easy to become discouraged when the children don’t cooperate, when you feel like you are in over your head, and when others seem to be doing so well. Is there anything that can help?
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Homeschool Hype!
As a homeschool dad of nearly 25 years and the pastor of a church with many homeschoolers for 12 years, I have seen a great deal of discouragement among homeschool moms. These brief articles are offered with the hope that they will shine a light on some things that are causing discouragement and provide some right words to lift hearts. Read the rest of this entry »
Children need unconditional love and unconditional acceptance from their parents; we all know this and believe this. However, do we ever stop to consider how so many of the traditional parenting techniques accepted in our culture work contrary to this primal goal? Traditional parenting techniques that involve consequences, controlling directives, and punishment are fear-based and fear-driven. They have the ability to undermine the parent-child relationship and because they are tied into behavior, children easily interpret these actions to mean, "If I’m not good, I am not lovable." Thus, children often build a subconscious foundation that says that love and approval is based off of performance.
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Children’s behaviors can be, at best, difficult to understand. Negative behaviors can be even more difficult to understand, especially when we have little insight into the causative factors. Adopted children will often exhibit behaviors such as lying, stealing and defiance; and parents may have little awareness as to why they are behaving this way. Faced with such challenging behaviors, parents often feel helpless. The beautiful child brought into the home for love and security, can quickly turn into the Beast.
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Have you ever considered what it means to be
an intentional parent? Have you thought about what hangs in the balance?
Fourteen years of parenting, reading countless books and listening to the sage
of advice of many who walked the parenting path before me has taught me much.
Ironically, what stands out the most is how much there is left to learn about
being an effective parent and how often I still miss the mark. Hitting the mark
is tough even in the best of circumstances; with work, after-school activities,
help with homework and other personal demands the bulls eye looks awfully small
and so far away. Maybe you can relate. One thing is clear to me — effective
parenting is not something that easily comes. It takes great effort and it takes
intentionality. The effort part is for another discussion, but what about
intentionality?
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How many more days until school starts? If you are a parent, most likely
you can answer that question without even looking at a calendar. Summer
has been fun but by now, most kids and their parents are ready to settle
back into the school routine.
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Studies have made the news again regarding television and our children.
What are they saying? Too much television is not good for our kids. The
very presence of a television in your child’s room can be a determining
factor in how well your kids do academically. Kids today are continuing
to be “plugged in.”
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CWAHD.com was designed to assist dads in their quest for a work at home
job or business. The idea for this website actually came from my wife.
Since the creation of her website for Christian Work at Home Moms, 
