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Dec 4,07 Light and color arranging Beautiful sights to behold can put sparkle in the eyes of children, not to mention tired adults :)
1. Food Basics
2. Math a big picture look
3. A triplet for living Choices based on truth
4. Eagle sits high not fearing what others think
5. Families
6. My family
7. Help your child from before conception through twelve, little things, a menu
8. Forces on Our Children peer pressure, tv, media
8b. Link to catholic article on strategies of Satan to destroy our children.
9. Bruce Lee and Mastery the people of this world are wiser in their ways than are the children of light
10. Warriors and Peace I would rather have peace won by a warrior than peace bought at the price of slavery through weakness.
11. God fire or Baal fire for your children?
12. for teachers and parents who want to teach their children
13. My school would have for my children and my friends
14. Various letters school, teachers, foundations, tv, books, way of life and victory
15. Cash not credit keep the good momentum going
16. Daddy Abba, Father and how dads and moms can help
17. Pregnant Expecting a baby
18. Choices John 3:14 Life and death choices
19. You are a child of the King of Kings
20. Honor and PrudenceHonor your father and mother.
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Protect your family from mass media which is subtly transforming America.
24. ADD ADHD Overcoming problems with children unable to finish a task, not able to focus ADD, ADHD, and others.
Despise not the day of small things see Zechariah 4:10
the beach that contains the ocean did it by collecting together
countless small grains of sand...
so the small things you put into your child's life
will contain, limit, define, shape and enable his soul.
God enables us. His enabling presence is our strength and ability for the task before us.
And He works through parents to enable the child.
Parents, enable your child. Encourage and strengthen
him as he reaches out to good intrests.
Each small thing you help him accomplish builds toward the next.
Be an enabling parent. Enable your child.
When you see what he likes, what desire is in his heart,
put yourself out to help him take steps towards that desire
(assuming it is good, helpful and acceptable).
Enable with good books, with good provision, with good guidance, and with wisdom.
Feed the worth while interests of youth so they can grow.
Remember the enabling presence of God and enable, by the faith towards God,
your child.
Ways to do this: Did he ask a question today? How about a library book about that question
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Did he play with a prism today, enjoying the colors?
Feed the interest, don't ignore it. Feed the growing roots
of good things.
Limits and Boundaries
God's Ten Commandments, that used to be posted in schools and public buildings are like the banks of a river.
Without limits, without river banks, the river would spread out so thin it would all dry up, evaporate, disappear.
The Ten Commandments give boundaries, limits, to keep us on the right road. To keep us safe and well.
They also serve like training wheels on a bicycle when a young person begins to go out on his own, to keep him or her from falling into sticker patch or worse.
Parents need to put boundaries to protect their children. Hope to put more on this soon.
It is a huge subject. Worthy of several hours reading and study to get enough of the story so one can understand. For the value of stories, see on this site Noah Webster and definition of history.
History without the story is like a t-bone without the steak.
That's what an annal is and that's what our modern history text books are.
Just names and dates and definitions outlining what should have already been presented, but hasn't, and never is. That's our modern text.
From the last two superintendents, to department heads, to individual teacher, they've told me "We just have so much contemporary things to teach there's no time to teach the foundations." What a crying shame, that our students are robbed of so much richness and given instead "leaves blowing in the wind". When they could have been given the seed and the root and the trunk and the main branches and then finally tasted some of the good fruit that comes with understanding.
Genesis 47:19 shows a people who understood it is far more important to have seed than a train-load of bread made from the fruit of the seed. Bread cannot grow. Seed does. Consider whether your student is getting seed or chaff, seed or leaves blowing in the winds of contemporary opinions.
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Deuteronomy 32:1,11- please read
Ruth 2:12 under whose wings thou art come to trust
Psalm 36:12 therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings
Psalm 63:7 Because thou hast been my help therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice
Psalm 91:4 He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord, they shall mount up on wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint
Psalm 57:1
Psalm 55:6
Remember that the scripture which the Jews call "the law and the prophets" (what is commonly called the Old Testament ) is the story (narrative history) of a people and their faith (what they believed and taught) and their experiences in the world and with God.
That is why we Americans need to restore the old history stories, not just annals, of American history for our children. There were plenty of great men of faith active in early colonial America. Their lessons for us today are necessary for our children to understand why they fought, and upon whom they depended.
The Declaration of Independence tells us they depended upon the providence of God.
Our children and teachers need to know those stories.
My granpaw Ferrell showed me how to walk the creek, and fish, and catch a crawdad, to toss a pebble up in the air, watch it fall into the water see the ripples intersect one another off the banks.
Larry A. Rice, 4908 George, Wichita Falls, Tx 76302
Phone 940-766-3919
email larry@christianparents.com