New Additions
Always use gentle words that give life.
Try new food, we may like it.
As we move along together in shaping our family rhythm, I am finding some things that I need to emphasise. The family rules list has been so helpful as we move through our day. We have it framed and displayed in our kitchen at their level. Our youngest loves to run up to it and remind his siblings of their errors throughout the day.
I am thinking through training children and how intentional you need to be with it. I am developing another piece on it that will be up next week, but I have found 2 things that I want tweak a little on our personal family rules. They have to do with some things that are cropping up that need to be worked on.
One is the way our children speak to each other when they are frustrated. There is way too much yelling, which of course ends up with a domino effect around here. Our oldest is VERY dramatic and we are working on training him to control his outbursts. (Gee I wonder where he gets that?) The very first verse we taught them was “Gentle words give life” in Proverbs, so it seems appropriate that we tweak the “Be Kind” to “Use Gentle words that give life.”
And two, I have not been offering enough variety in what they are eating. I am in a cooking rut and so I am working my way out of it. Firstly we are creating a family recipes cookbook that we work on together using picaboo. I am offering different veggies other than broccoli and raw carrots. Our daughter has become VERY finicky and that is not very becoming in a young woman me thinks, so we will work on it now when she is a wee woman. That is where I came up with “Always try new food. We may like it.”
I am finding that baby steps along the way pay off big in short order. For me I am working on following through…on everything. Like using all the food I buy at the grocery store for each meal I planned to prepare, instead of getting board with one meal left and ether buying different things or going out to eat. Not very disciplined for a middle aged woman me thinks.(Is 33 middle aged? Yikes)
So I am going to work on that too. It all adds up to freedom. Freedom for me, our family, our kids. When we can tell our bodies “no” when we really want to say “yes” we can say “yes” to hard things when we probably would of said “no”. Sounds like a good life skill to have don’t ya think?
