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Red Coats and Race Cars
Story #1 When I was 15 I begged my parents to buy me a red wool coat. The one I wanted was expensive, really expensive, and so I used every ounce of my persuasive power to convince them that I had to...
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A Spiritual Way to Celebrate My Children’s BIRTHdays
I have always loved birthdays. The parties, the balloons, the cake, the presents, the attention. Birthday’s have always been a big deal in my family and celebrating them is a lot of fun. Yet it wasn’t...
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Mom’s Missionary Training Center
Last summer I spent a lot of time researching educational methods, curriculum, and learning activities. Jon and I are about 90% sure that we would like to home school our kids (ack! Did I really say...
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Teaching Children Honesty
Like I promised, here is the first lesson from my “Mom’s Missionary Training Center”. Honesty isn’t one of the nine Christ-like attributes that is listed in “Preach My Gospel ( it technically falls...
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How to Get Kids to Pay Attention
A few days ago I got an email from a woman who had just started doing one of my Mom’s MTC lessons with her boys ( 8, 5, and 3). She wrote: … I got ready to do honesty this week and started today...
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Teaching Children Humility
Here is the third lesson in my Mom’s Missionary Training Center. We did these lessons in November, so many of my lessons corresponded with Thanksgiving things we were doing as well. It worked out great...
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Teaching Children Charity
After a long break (sorry) here is the next lesson in my Mom’s MTC. If you would like to know the details of how we implement these lessons in our home please read the first part of this post. Charity...
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Teaching Children Patience
This is a lesson for my Mom’s MTC. If you want more specifics on how I use these lessons in my home read the start of this post. Patience Includes: Accepting God’s will and timing Endurance Accepting...
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