Not exact matches
Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took
to go back
to church again, in the hours of chatting that have
to precede the real heart -
to - heart talks, in the yelling at my
kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not
to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent
to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the
listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.
But
sometimes I just have
to listen to my inner fat -
kid and stuff delicious things into cookies, cupcakes, burgers, pizza crusts, etc..
Sometimes,
kids behave impulsively because they don't
listen to the directions.
Sometimes we need some great tips
to use when we are in the moment
to get our
kids to listen without yelling.
«I think it boils down
to listening to what your
kid isn't telling you, or isn't able
to tell you,» explains Moody, «
Sometimes kids just don't want to eat their veggies, but sometimes there are reason
Sometimes kids just don't want
to eat their veggies, but
sometimes there are reason
sometimes there are reasons for it.
Sometimes kids creep up
to the door
to listen.
Sometimes talking and
listening and feeling understood is all that's needed
to help
kids» frustrations melt away.
I have noticed that
sometimes my yelling happens when I've had a busy day with catching up with cooking, and feeding the
kids and clean up and need
to take the time
to finally eat something
to get my power back but my toddler seems
to need me right then at the moment of faint and wants something I can't quite understand and I keep telling him in gentle tone that mommy needs
to eat too but he won't
listen and that's when out of fatigue I find myself screaming at him occasionally.
My husband and I will readily admit
to each other,
sometimes we are so bored out of our minds
listening to the other person go on and on and often times are distracted by the
kids.
We adults tend
to want
to fix problems, but
sometimes just
listening to our
kids and acknowledging their feelings is enough.
Outside Assistance:
Sometimes kids listen better when it's not their mom or dad trying
to explain difficult homework problems, which is where Sylvan's Homework Help comes in handy.
Sometimes we don't have
to say anything at all for our
kids to know we are
listening.
What's great about this resource is that it's audio (and
sometimes video) based, so the
kids and you can
listen to the lectures while on the go.
If we're going
to partner
to educate our
kids, we need
to start by
listening to each other, and
listening sometimes to what is not said.
Sometimes, one of my
kids will ask what happened when he wasn't
listening or ask me
to wait
to listen until he's in the car.
Sometimes kids creep up
to the door
to listen.