Words of wisdom to younger women from Lyndsay Lambert
Hey, moms? What have you got planned for Valentine’s Day? Do you like to bake heart-shaped cookies and have the children help you decorate them? Or will you attend a Valentine’s Day party at which the children share Valentine cards with all their friends?
But wait! Isn’t Valentine’s Day about romantic love (and things like roses, chocolates and poetry)?
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It took some time to come up with a system to clean house that worked well for my family with a minimum amount of stress on me.
I am tempted to tell you the stories about my trial-and-error search for the right system for us. However, since blog posts shouldn’t be too long, instead of my funny stories (which are more about what not to do), I will tell you two major things that I learned from my errors:
As I mentioned in a past blog post, “Turning Little Liabilities into Big Assets,” we trained our children to clean house and help with all the work created by six people just living under the same roof. I suppose that part of this commitment came from the fact that we had four children within five years, and I was desperate!
My mother (bless her!) paid for someone to clean our house every other week for a time when my twins were babies. But that eventually ran out, and I was left needing help but not able financially to hire someone. Thus, we were motivated to include our children to help as early as possible.Continue Reading
If you’re like me, it’s easy to look around at our culture and get discouraged about the direction you see it going. However, recently Tim and I learned about some things that are going on in the Christian community that we think are very positive. So, rather than writing about teaching young children to help around the house, I wanted to tell you what encouraged us.
We attended the National Bible Bee competition at which we watched children in three different age groups–primary, junior and senior–recite passages of scripture on demand and answer questions about the Bible. (Just for the record, I got only two answers right in my head. 😛 At least one contestant had a correct answer to every question, and most of them got them right.)Continue Reading