Joy | April 25, 2010
To develop destressing, health-promoting relationships with family and friends. Watch your nonverbals. Research suggests that at the very most only 30 percent of what we communicate takes place verbally, with 70 percent or more occurring nonverbally. A simple look, gesture, or touch can speak volumes, communicating affirmation, acceptance, and approval, or their opposites. Never underestimate [...]
Joy | April 13, 2010
What can be done to develop destressing, health-promoting relationships with family and friends? Treasure close friends. In this book WHY AM I AFRAID TO TELL YOU WHO I AM? John Powell identofoed five levels of communication: stranger (communicating nonverbally and with cliches), acquaintance (reporting the facts), casual (sharing self-disclosure of feelings and emotions), and intimate [...]
Joy | October 25, 2009
Love’s agencies have wonderful power, for they are divine. The soft answer that “turns away wrath,” the love that “is patient and kind,” the charity that “covers a multitude what power for healing would our lives be gifted. These precious lessons may be so simply taught as to be understood even by little children. The [...]
Joy | October 15, 2009
Parents must learn the lesson of implicit obedience to God’s voice, which speaks to them out of His Word. As they learn this lesson, they can teach their children respect and obedience in word and action. This is the work that should be carried on in home. Those who do it will reach upward themselves, [...]
Joy | October 5, 2009
To maintain good rapport with your children doesn’t mean you should be indifferent to misbehavior or be afraid to lay down the law if necessary. Quite the opposite. Each obedience and positve parent-child relationships happen only if parents are strong enough to establish, maintain, and enforce limits. Only then will children feel secure in their [...]
Joy | October 3, 2009
The work of the parent is seldom done as it should be. Parents, teach the young tendrils to entwine with God for support. It is not enough that you say, Do this, or, Do that. Prepare the way for your child to obey your commands cheerfully. Teach them to ask the Lord to help them [...]
Joy | October 1, 2009
The first duty of the mother is to train their children. The mother is the light of the children and that they followed that light to the life ahead. It is the responsibility of the mother to guide them in every path they made. A solemn responsibility rests upon mother to train their children so [...]
Joy | September 21, 2009
Mothers, let your hearts be open to receive the instruction of God, ever bearing in mind the fact that you must act your part in conforming to the will of God. You must place yourself in the light and seek from God wisdom, that you may know how to act, that you may acknowledge God as [...]
Joy | September 19, 2009
A healthy, growing child is naturally active and inquisitive. He moves a lot and asks many questions. He is into sorts of nooks and crannies and gets into all kinds of trouble. These are perfectly normal and no cause for concern. However, in order to develop fully, a child must learn to fucos on an activity, to stick to it [...]
Joy | September 14, 2009
Children. They can either be legal or biological. Childhood offers a brief opportunity for parents and children to share intimate moments of love and respect. Time well spent with one’s child is an investment for the future. So, What is a Child? Fruit of marriage. Married couples who love each other welcome the arrival of the [...]
