When My Kids Don’t Obey
I’m happy to be able to say that my kids, more often than not, obey Edric and me. However, there are occasions when they don’t….
Tag: Discipline
Strict but Sweet. Firm but Friendly
I’m dealing with a snacking-in-between-meals issue with my youngest daughter, Catalina. She recently turned four and her opinionated-ness has also escalated in the last year….
Obedience and Discipline
As our children move up in their ages, training them in obedience doesn’t stop. Disciplining for disobedience, however, may evolve into different forms. When our…
Character, Character Building, Discipline, Father, God, Love, motherhood, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships
Disciplining Children Revisited
This is a follow-up article to the one I wrote on disciplining my 1-year old daughter, Catalina, which resulted in some eyebrow raising because I…
Make Time to Teach Character
It’s a challenge to hold Titus’ attention. I suppose this comes with being a more physical child whose hands are perpetually itching to do…
Disciplining A Little Fireball With Love
My fifth child, Catalina, was my first child to display her relentlessness and fighting spirit so early on in her life. At times I…
Bible, Character, Christianity, Discipline, family, Father, motherhood, Obedience, Parenting, Thoughts
Do Not Aim For External Obedience
My fourth child is Tiana. She is a charming 3 year old and she knows it. Tiana will flutter her eyelashes, twinkle those big brown…
Bible, Discipline, motherhood, Obedience, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships, Thoughts
Strawberry Yoghurt
While I struggled with my miserable cold two nights ago, trying to rest in the room alone, a commotion in the kitchen woke me up….
Character Building, Discipline, God, Homeschool, motherhood, Parenting, Parenting & Homeschooling, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships, Thoughts
Dealing with the Resistance
Given the “break” we have had from homeschooling because of no househelp, I have been trying to get my kids back into the habit of…
Bible, Character Building, Christianity, Discipline, Father, God, motherhood, Obedience, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships, Thoughts
When They Don’t Get Their Candy
From time to time parents ask me how to discipline a child who is misbehaving. They want to know if spanking is the solution. Some…
Bible, Character Building, Christianity, Discipline, family, Homeschool, Obedience, Parenting, Raising Boys, Raising Girls, Relationships
Food Fight
During lunch, our boys had an “incident.” After Edric and I had excused ourselves from the table, we left the two younger boys to finish…
Character Building, Christianity, motherhood, Parenting, Parenting & Homeschooling, Raising Boys, Relationships
Edan’s Fork
Sometimes when my kids get together with their cousins, the two older boys will play with Caleb. And Titus, my third son, and Tiana will…
