Dear Parents Who Feel Powerless In The Screen Time Battle, Let me begin by assuring you that I understand. I get it. Because I am there.
Screens are stealing childhoods, robbing us of our legacies, and threatening our families. But not anymore. It’s time to #RedeemThe205
May we not allow fear to steal today away from us, for today is all we have for certain.
I certainly cried through the making of this video. May it forever change how we view the time we have with our children.
We all know that reading does incredible things for a child, but what about the skill of storytelling? Here is a fun, cheap, and creative way to nurture within your child a love and skill for story telling!
The truth is, this job is very, very, very hard. It is demanding and exhausting and confusing and incredibly emotional. But that is exactly where the beauty is found. In the hard stuff. And in the big grace that makes the hard stuff into the holy stuff.
The first time he asked the question, it stopped me in my tracks. Over the next few weeks he would repeat his request on several occasions, each time unsettling my spirit a little bit more.
He reminds me that life is more than burdens and agendas and stress. And that sometimes stopping to smell the flowers is not quite enough.
He reminds me that life is more than burdens and agendas and stress. And that sometimes stopping to smell the flowers is not quite enough.
What our children observe our hands holding day in and day out will greatly determine what they decide to busy their own hands with. What might begin to change if we started taking note of what occupies our hands most?
It has been on my mind now for 433 days. Just shy of 62 weeks. Some 15 and a half months. Ever since I wrote that little story of counting time.
Raising kids stirs something deep in our souls — an innate knowing that our time is finite. Taking my kids outside in creation, I’m discovering how to stretch our time and pack it to the brim with meaning. God’s creativity provides the riches of resources for teaching the next generation who He is and how He loves us. Join our adventure and discover inspiration and resources for refusing rush, creating habits of rest, living intentionally, and making the most of this beautiful life!