Monday, June 21, 2010

this moment


A few pictures from this afternoon when Emma was napping:





Also, there's a woman that writes a blog that I follow who wrote a good - and really long - post the other day about parenting. Here's a snippet:


"Fear based parenting ... is when parents motivate their children to do what is "right" out of fear. Just plain fear. ...
Fear is sin. I do not want to parent my children based on my fears.
I do not want to raise fearful children either. I believe if we parent this way we can hinder our children from understanding who God is.
...
There are a few different types of fear based parenting possibly?
-parenting according to what we FEAR others will think of us.
-parenting where we actually plant FEAR in the hearts of our children [ultimately not trusting the Lord].
-over protecting out of FEAR.
-motivating our children to behave the way we want them to out of FEAR of us, or fear of hell, or fear of punishment.
...
I think fear based parenting is something that can easily sneak into our relating to our children without even realizing it."

There's a lot more too, just her recent thoughts on being a godly mother.

2 comments:

Pearl said...

Am I missing something?? Has the baby been born?!! I have been checking everday....!!!


Gretz from another beautiful red-head! =)

Elizabeth {the Path Less Traveled} said...

Yes he has! :)
http://john-elizabeth.blogspot.com/2010/06/its-boy.html

thanks <3

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