Communicating With Your Kids

Posted in: Parenting, Susan on TV
April 9, 2012 with 0 Comments

It can be hard to keep the lines of communication open with your kids, especially as they get older. Here are a few tips on  pushing through common communication barriers and really getting your child to open up.

 

More from iMOM on Communication:

Pillow Talk: 20 questions for your and your child

Kid Conversation Starters

Teen Conversation Starters

The Dangers of Pushing Your Child to be Popular

Posted in: Lessons I Learned, Parenting, Susan on TV
March 30, 2012 with 0 Comments

We never want our children to feel left out, but pushing your child to be popular has many dangerous outcomes. Here are some ideas for  encouraging your child to strive for greatness, not popularity.

With 5 kids, I have had children on all sides of the popularity spectrum.

Need more on why it’s ok for your child to be a geek?

30 Day Marriage Challenge

Posted in: Love Love Love & Marriage
March 29, 2012 with 3 Comments

I am declaring April a month of spring  fever for my marriage.

30 days of thinking about Mark

instead of being consumed by the kids, work, the book, the house renovation, the move in July, the dog’s scratching allergy, etc, etc, etc.

I am hoping the 30 Day Marriage Challenge

will shower him

with so much love

that it produces a blooming summer!

 Print yours here!

 

How Quickly the Years Go By

Posted in: Be Encouraged Mom, Relationships
March 27, 2012 with 2 Comments

Where does the time go? One day, my girls were playing dress up and having tea parties. The next, or so it seemed, they were grown women.

In this really beautiful video, Michael W. Smith asks, “How did tomorrow turn into yesterday?” How did our little children grow up, so… very… fast?

 

Every Life Is Beautiful In The New Film “October Baby”

Posted in: Just for Fun, Relationships
March 20, 2012 with 2 Comments

I love watching movies, but sometimes the choices can be ugly.  So when a movie comes out that has meaning, gives understanding and depth to life, opens up opportunities for discussion and reflection, I am all over it.  October Baby is such a movie and it releases in theaters on Friday.

In October Baby every life is beautiful…but living through it is not always pretty.  October Baby honestly explores the reality of life. As the mother of adopted children, so much portrayed in the movie spoke to me personally.  I have seen the same pain Hannah fights as she unravels her past in the movie played out in my children’s lives.  Having met my adopted children’s birth mother, I cried as saw the emotion in Hannah’s birth mother’s face.  Most of all, I anguished with Hannah’s adopted parents in their desire to protect and love the child they had taken to be their own. Every life is beautiful and Hannah’s life is no exception…but then neither is yours.  October Baby won’t let you forget that.

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