• Children's Activity Ideas,  Family Corner,  Uncategorized

    32 Activity Ideas for Children

    32 Activity Ideas for Children Enjoy your time with your children by planning fun activities.  Here are 32 activity ideas to keep your children occupied and convinced that you’re the greatest mom in the world! Children’s Activity Ideas for Indoors 1. Story time Read and discuss a book or a chapter of a book, make up your own endings. You can even make up your own stories by sitting the kids in a ring and letting them “add a sentence”. We’ve made up lots of really funny stories this way. 2. Giant Easel Go to a charity shop or wallpaper shop and buy leftover rolls of wallpaper. Cover a wall…

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    How to Teach Children that the Bible is True

    How to Teach Children that the Bible is True What you call something is very important. As a parent, you were very aware of that when you named your children. Your children bear the meaning or the connotation of that name for life. The lines from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet refer to this: “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” The Bible places great importance on the meaning of names. Names were sometimes changed as the result of events. God changed Abram’s name to Abraham and his wife’s name, Sarai, to Sarah when He told Abraham they would be…

  • Cooking,  Family Corner,  Meal Planning,  Uncategorized

    24 Reasons to Gather Around the Dinner Table

    Family Meal Time ~ 24 Reasons to Gather Around the Dinner Table How often does your family have dinner together? If you’re like most families nowadays, the answer is probably, “Not very often.” It’s understandable. Modern families are busy. Both parents work and sometimes get home at different times. Children have activities to go to, and Mom’s got to drive them all over the place. Really, who’s got the time and energy to even cook dinner every single night? You, that’s who! Eating together is good for you and your family. So you better make time and find the energy to make home-cooked meals and sit down and eat together…