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Christian Solo Parents Thoughts about Solo Parenting from a Christian Perspective

04/10/2016

Honour your Mother and Father...
How do we teach our kids to honour a Parent that has hurt us, or maybe worse hurt and rejected our kids?
The key is in understanding what Honouring is.
Honour is not a term we use much. Honouring is not giving a gift or a nice speech about someone, honouring is not acknowledging a person. Honouring someone may not even mean you want to be with them.

How do we honour God? Not by saying nice things about him (that's praise), not by giving to him (that's Tithe and offering) not by doing things for him (that's service).
We honour God by living a life that reflects who he is.

So how do we teach our children to honour the other parent?
By highlighting the good in that person, and ensuring our children grow up to be like that.
In most cases there was something about the other parent that you admired or attracted you to them in the first place. Your child can honour that person by reflecting that good trait in their own life.

26/09/2016

In shared care parenting a child is often given the choice as to which parent they want live with. Often they choose the fun loving care free parent and that breaks the heart of the responsible dedicated parent that is always looking for the best of this child.
My question today is are you choosing to live with your Heavenly Father or chase after the fun of Mother Earth.

11/03/2016

Are you intentually building something with your kids lives or is it just a pile of experiences. Time to get intentional and stop life from just ticking by.

25/02/2016

No matter how battered and bruised a tree is from its long hard life, it's seeds produce plants that are not effected by its history at all. The next generation is only effected by what happens to it.
We do well to do the same. Lets not taint our kids by our own negitive life experiences.

23/11/2015

Hebrews 11 lists so many "Heroes of the faith" however almost all of them had on major short fall. Almost all of them failed to pass their faith onto their kids.
The greatest thing we can do as a parent is to ensue our children know God and encounter Jesus.

25/09/2015

Don't throw your eternity away because of your relationship status.

Be it turning your back on God because of your failed relationship, or dating someone who is not a Christian. I have seen way to many great Christian's walk away from their faith because of their relationship status. Please don't be another one.

21/05/2015

Our lives are like a jigsaw puzzle.
For a while things seem to be connecting, bit then progress appears to stop. But there are times when the person assembling the puzzle needs to stop and turn the remaining pieces over and sort them out.
In the times of apparent nothing maybe the work is happening outside of us. Becauae the next piece is not ready.
Likewise sometimes its easier to stop and build from another corner for a while.

31/03/2015

When I'm correcting my kids I often hear God talking to me.
Not giving me parenting insights, but reminding me he's my father and maybe I should be listening to his instructions better, just like I expect my kids to be listening to me better.

08/02/2015

Honouring your mother and your father, has more to do with us as adults supporting and blessing our ageing parents, than it does about our kids doing what they are asked, and obeying us.

While children must learn to obey us, we must also learn to acknowledge the role our parents have played in our lives.
This is not always easy based on our personal life journey, but as we learn to do this, it will help us to parent our children better.

12/01/2015

We live in an instant world, instat food that simply leaves a horrid taste in the mouth, an unfillfilled tummy and has no real goodness for us at all.
Sadly that's how we often treat our healing, our friendships, and our faith in God. The old addage of Good things take time truely is right.

Was out driving recently and saw this, it really got me thinking. The hillside was covered with what we term a w**d (Thi...
09/12/2014

Was out driving recently and saw this, it really got me thinking.
The hillside was covered with what we term a w**d (This is gorse) it was beautiful. Out of something horrible, came something beautiful. But then I saw something even more profound. Some men were placing beehives by this gorse. So despite the destruction that Gorse causes, beauty and sustenance came from this destruction.
So it can be with our lives if we let God be the one in control.

11/11/2014

I have read countless books on Solo Parenting over the last 5 year. But none come close to the book I have just finished.
The Essential Guide to Children & Separation. Surviving Divorce and Family Break-up y Jennifer Croly
It's available from The Parenting Place, and indeed comes with my highest recommendation. I wish I had read this one 5 years ago.
I'm going to have to buy another copy soon, as I already have friends wanting to borrow this copy.

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