Gardening experts can enjoy this special treat. Lessons from the time of Squanto provide valuable keys to enriching the soil for healthier, tastier fruits and vegetables. Here’s to your gardening pleasure: Squanto’sGarden1
Speaking motivating words to your children is one of the most powerful ways to raise winners in life. Put these 2 tips into use as soon as possible to maximize your efforts as a parent.
The more encouragement you give to your kids, the higher they will go in life. Just make sure your daily encouragement is genuine. For instance, you may want to go overboard with your 4 year old’s crayon masterpiece. But you wouldn’t do the same thing with your 12 year old.
We call these 2 simple tips that will help you stay consistent with giving encouraging words to your children: Checklist To Blast-Off.
We are making this very easy for you because there are only 2 items on your checklist before lift off. Here’s the first item to ask yourself:
1) Have I made my child feel POSITIVE ABOUT THEMSELVES in my dealings with them today? It is both vital and entirely possible for you to be able to correct your child and do it in an encouraging way. You will know that you were successful if your child can give you a genuine smile after you are finished. Motivating words added to discipline will work miracles. And the last item before lift off is this,
2) Did my child give 1 encouraging word to someone else today? If you have done a decent job of encouraging your child during the day, it should be easy for them to copy this same behavior with someone else. It is important that they are both the receiver and giver of motivating words. Make it a habit of asking them how they did this each day.
This is so powerful, yet so simple to do. Remember, give at least 1 word of encouragement to each of your children today.
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Tagged daily encouragement, motivating words, word of encouragement
You are already teaching morals in your home whether you realize it or not. Morals equal values, and you are communicating your values every day to your kids.
The big question is where are you getting your morals or values from. There are really only 2 choices:
A) We see the values of the world by watching the evening news. These include power, fame, the love of money, possessions, pleasure, and putting yourself above everything else.
B) The second choice are those values established by your Creator. His values are best illustrated by looking at the life of Jesus Christ. You will be able to learn more about how Biblical values are related to parenting a s soon as we transfer some Biblical parenting tips onto this blog.
While ministers can be a help in teaching good values, we believe this is the parent’s responsibility. In order to get started with this process at home, we suggest these 2 simple tips:
1) Make a list of the top 5 values that you want your children living by, and
2) Encourage them to to look for illustrations of these values and then discuss their findings while sharing some of your own experiences.
We are ALL living by faith – it just depends on what you are putting your faith in.
Here are 2 family team building tips you can get started in your home immediately. You’ll love the results you get. In order to help you remember them, we will use the concept of the Check Engine Light. 
We will call the first tip “TEAM CHECK”.
It is absolutely a must that you and your spouse work together as a team on issues related to parenting your children. Every couple, though, has areas of disagreement. How are you supposed to handle this?
First, find out what those areas are. Second, develop a simple plan of compromise that you both agree on. And third, do a monthly team check on your progress of acting as a team.
And we will call the second team building tip “Family Projects”. In today’s world, there are so many activities pulling our families apart. The idea of working together as a family unit has been lost in the midst of everybody’s busy schedules.
What can you do to create some family unity? Schedule a short 15 minute meeting with your family to get some ideas on a “family project”. Make a list of options that are affordable and workable that you approve of. Then take a family vote to determine the winner. Set a date to carry out this project. Make absolutely sure you start out with something SIMPLE and FUN.
Do this once a month. It will take a little time of your time, but the benefits are priceless and will bring your family closer to being guaranteed winners.
After you try out these family team building tips, you can go to the next top 10 tip.
Focus on these 10 parenting tips and you will propel your children to their places of greatness. That’s a pretty bold statement to make, but we stand behind it. 
So let’s do a little math here. Ten tips at 2 minutes each equals 20 minutes to the best children and the wisest parents in the world. Not so fast, algebra-breath.
You can, however, make real progress towards these 2 goals by using these parenting tips as a blueprint. Commit to 2 minutes a day on each of these tips until you have a plan that fits your family.
Successful children and wise parenting will not happen by magic. It can and WILL happen through your commitment and wise strategies.
These tips are designed to get you:
A) Thinking about parenting in a new way, and
B) To do a little planning ahead.
OK, here they are. Each link below will lead you to a brief explanation and simple action plan for you to work on. And keep coming back to this list to check on your progress.
Please be patient as we each get of these links active for you.
The Top 10 Tips for Parents related to:
1) Marital unity and family togetherness
3) Showering your child with encouragement
4) Discipline with calmness
5) Living a healthy lifestyle
6) Parental responsibility for education
7) Protecting your family
Preparation for careers and finances
9) Friendships and dating
10) Discovering destinies and roles
Take your time with each one of these tips until you feel comfortable putting each of them into practice.
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Tagged 10 parenting tips, parenting, parenting tips, successful children
Posted in 2 Minute Parenting Tips
Tagged parenting, parenting skills, parenting tips
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Get ready to save BIG on today’s average college costs.
This college for homeschoolers plan will allow your son or daughter to obtain a quality college education without leaving home and at a fraction of the cost for a typical college degree.
I know you are asking how is this possible when the average cost for college per year these days is $15000 or more. And I know you are not forgetting the importance of keeping your child away from the many harmful influences that are running rampant at American universities.
Our family has discovered a way to do all this. People try to ridicule homeschooling parents because they are protecting their children from the destructive elements around us all. I applaud you for boldly creating a safe environment for your children to be fully equipped to successfully deal with the challenges of today’s society.
You and I both know it’s a war out there. Our children won’t come out on top unless they are properly trained by us and Godly influences.
This is how we developed a college for homeschoolers plan and you can do the same.
The first key towards homeschool college admissions is to avoid paying tuition by NOT enrolling in a college for your first 90 college credits. Tuition at state universities costs an average of around $7000 a year. You are looking at tuition costs of 20 to 30 thousand dollars a year at private colleges. Most of these credits are basic entry level courses.
The second key is to obtain your transferrable college credits through using the CLEP and DANTES testing services. Your cost for each test is around $100. We even found a way for you cut this cost down by 25%. With the advancement of online college degrees, you can get most degrees through transferring your testing credits to a regionally accredited college across the USA.
The third key to this college for homeschoolers plan is to provide the right balance of independence, support, and accountability for your homeschooled son or daughter AT HOME as they pursue their college education. The average room and board cost for US colleges is close to another $7000 per year.
The fourth key is to have a step-by-step plan to follow and stick to through this whole process. This plan is simple but you can’t follow through with it successfully without a well thought out strategy. There is a lot of preparation and planning necessary that will allow this plan to achieve incredible results for you.
The fifth and final key to homeschooling college admissions is once you have acquired approximately 90 college credits, you can enroll in a regionally accredited college and finish your senior year through a variety of online course options.
The end result is that your child will be able to obtain an undergraduate college degree with more than a 50% savings and without any college loan debt. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to guide your young adult son or daughter through the critical years of their final preparation for adult life.
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What is Hanukkah? This is a Jewish holiday with a very important message for Christian believers. Hanukkah, known as the Festival of Lights, or the Feast of Dedication has an amazing link to Christianity as do most of the feasts spoken of in the Bible.
Look into this wonderful story, and discover for yourself its relevance to every Christian believer. See if you can recognize the connection between the supernatural grace released to push back the darkness embodied in this holiday and God’s dedication to us through giving His only begotten Son to bring His light back into the world!
To completely answer what is Hanukkah, I’ll provide some enlightening Hanukkah facts: Before 165 BC, the Jewish people who lived in Judea were under the rule of the Greek kings. King Antiochus Epiphanes took control of the Temple in Jerusalem, and forced them to give up all worship of God. He made them bow down to the Greek false gods.
Records clearly show that he defiled the temple by sacrificing a pig on the altar, and spilling its blood on the holy Scripture scrolls. As a result of this persecution, a group of ONLY four Jewish brothers, led by Judah Maccabee,
assembled an army of warriors to fight against this evil control and blasphemy. After fighting for three tough years against all odds, a miraculous victory was achieved, and the Temple was rededicated to the Lord.
As part of this rededication, a flame representing God’s divine presence was to be lit for 8 days. However, most of the oil for this flame was defiled by the Greeks, and it would take a week for enough new oil to be purified. Though there was only enough oil for one day, the eternal flame burned miraculously for the eight days required during this ceremony, until more sacred oil was ready.
Hanukkah also means dedication, and has been commemorated for centuries by lighting a special nine-branched candelabra, called the menorah. One candle referred to as the “servant”, is used to light the others.
Jesus Christ is our perfect example of servant-hood as described in the following scripture. Phil 2:8-9 states: “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself by living a life of utter obedience, to the point of death, and the death he died was that of a common criminal. That is why God has lifted him to the heights, and has given him the name above all names.”
Hanukkah is a picture of God’s precious Son, the Light of the World, and through the gift of His Spirit in us, we can be a Light as well!
So, what is Hanukkah to Christian believers? It is a time to remember our God’s faithfulness and abounding grace. It is a time to remember the need for us to persevere during persecution or trials UNTIL the victory comes. It is a time to remember that the same presence that filled the temple keeping the flame lit, lives in us helping us to shine like our Savior, Jesus Christ.
As Paul says in Colossians 2:16-17, these feasts are a shadow of things to come! As Believers, we will learn more about Him as we celebrate the festivals that were important to Him!
I trust that you now have an answer to what is Hanukkah to encourage you to experience this holiday. We invite you and your family to learn more about His Biblical feasts and watch the doors of God’s blessings open up for you to enjoy.
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Tagged feast of dedication, Hanukkah facts, what is Hanukkah
Are you aware of the true origin of Halloween? There was a time when I was totally uniformed about the connection this holiday has with occult practices. I assumed it was just a fun holiday and eagerly participated in a Haunted House as a fundraiser for my church until learning about the origins of Halloween.
Halloween began well before Christ’s birth as a three day celebration of the dead by the druids in ancient region s of England and Ireland. It is recorded in history as the eve of samhain, which marked the end of the Celtic calendar year.
During this festival, divination and soothsaying were practiced. Druids dressed as witches, goblins, and fairies were reported to go throughout the countryside harassing people for contributions of food. This is the basis for our current trick-or-treat rituals. Satanic worship and witchcraft, including black cats, were all associated with this time which sounds much like our current Halloween traditions.
The current Halloween practice of dressing children in masks and costumes and sending them out into the neighborhoods for “food” closely mimics those harassing behaviors by the early druids. Even the jack-o-lantern got its beginning from turnips carved as death masks carried by the druids during this time.
These traditions have become a part of American family culture as simple and playful fun. The true origin of this fun paints a much different picture. The question remains: is this a practice that our children should be engaging in when it was born out of these “dark” beginnings?
Is it just simple fun or is there more going on behind the scenes?
Next time you are tempted to spend hundreds of dollars on ghastly decorations and cavity-inducing delights, think about the origin of Halloween.
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Tagged Halloween traditions, origin of Halloween, origins of Halloween