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Watch Out for Being Overly Self-Critical

We definitely need to try to be honest with ourselves as business owners and work to do a better and better job at our work. I also think it helps to be able to be honest with ourselves and look at our “weaknesses” or those areas where we stand to make improvements. Many of us can get carried away, however, and spend so much time beating ourselves up and focusing on what we are not doing right, that we can force our self-esteem into the dumpster! Too much self-criticism does not help our businesses. To be completely honest, I do … Continue reading →

Turn Off Your Critical Brain

How can we help it as parents? We know that a big part of our job is to train and teach our children and this just seems to include a bit of critiquing. We know that we can be too critical and that often keeping our mouths closed is better than saying something critical, but many of us struggle with this. I’ve come up with a phrase I use for myself and I remind myself to “turn off my critical brain” and open myself up to other ways of responding. The world is a critical place, it may not seem … Continue reading →

How Sin Affects Our Self-Esteem

Even when we’re trying to be righteous, little sins, and sometimes not so little sins, can become a problem. Whether it’s a one-time thing or an on-going cycle, we are affected in a multitude of ways. We stop feeling happy. Our tempers grow short. We feel guilty. We try to avoid any conversations that might link back to the sin we are seeking to hide. Until we repent and forsake the action, we feel miserable. We can’t feel good about ourselves and yet guilty at the same time, and in this way, sin robs us of our self-esteem. When we … Continue reading →

Encouraging a Self-Critical Child

Some people are definitely their own toughest critics. And, this goes for young children too. While you may not know why or how they came about being so self-critical—there are things that parents can do to encourage and support a child who is, by nature, very hard on him or herself… Self-critical children may have self-esteem issues, or they may be perfectionists who expect a great deal from themselves. As with most aspects of parenting, it pays to take a look at our own behavior to see if we are saying or doing anything that might be encouraging or passing … Continue reading →

Ten Signs that Your Child May be Gifted

Gifted and creative children often have behavioral problems in school which resemble ADHD, ODD, or other disorders. Sadly, many of these children are reprimanded, medicated, and denied the ability to reach their full potential. When this happens, our entire society suffers. Imagine if Einstein, Churchill, Edison, and other great thinkers who struggled in school were held back and forced to be ordinary. What if we had labeled them as slow learners and medicated them? How might the world be different today? I wonder why we assume children who misbehave are unintelligent. For some reason we’ve adopted this thinking in the … Continue reading →

Marriage is a Commitment

How many times have you heard people say, ‘Marriage is only a piece of paper?’ Is it? I disagree. Marriage, I believe, is a commitment. Whether you get married in a church, a garden or a registry office doesn’t matter. The promise is the same. You are promising to love and give yourself to another person. It’s a commitment to that person, before God, and even if you’re not a believer, before friends, family and society. It’s both a commitment and a promise. Yet we hear people say ‘Marriage? Who needs it? We get along fine without it.’ Do they? … Continue reading →

Author Interview – Sherry Ann Miller (part two) Her Books

Thank you for joining us for part two of our conversation with award-winning LDS author Sherry Ann Miller. If you missed part one, click here. Sherry Ann, when we left off yesterday, we were getting ready to talk about your books. What was your first novel? My first novel ever published was “One Last Gift.” But, it is not my first novel. I wrote many, many novels while my children were young . . . all of which never published. As I read them now, I know why they were never published. They lack continuity, they lose momentum, and the … Continue reading →

Homeschool Curriculum Glossary (Daily Skill-Drawing)

Daily Skill Builders by Walsh Publishing is a series of workbooks that provides short exercises to give children daily practice in English and math. Daily Warm ups is workbook series that teaches reading, writing, communication, critical thinking skills, and word attack strategies while preparing students for standardized testing. Davidsons Music is a Christian musical education DVD curriculum that allows students to be self taught as well as encouraging creativity. Developmental Math “is composed of a complete workbook series progressing, Level by Level, through the basic elements of arithmetic into the beginnings of algebra. As a self- teaching program, Developmental Mathematics … Continue reading →

What is God Like?

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As a Christian, I always think it is exciting when I find a verse in Scripture that gives me a clear picture of the Character of God. In Exodus 34, God tells Moses that He will pass by him and show him some of His glory. In fact, God says that His glory is so great that Moses will not be allowed to look on His face because the sheer magnificence of God would kill him. As God passes by Moses, He puts His “hand” over Moses’ eyes to protect Moses from seeing His face and dying. After He is … Continue reading →