November 8, 2010 Meeting

Another great night filled with food, fellowship, and fun! I pray you all have gained some great wisdom from Jennifer Williams on raising your children!

Don't Forget!!!!! December 6th is our Teen Mops Christmas Party!!!! We will meet at the church, drop off our children, and then carpool over to our party location. Please make sure to arrive at the church on time (no later than 6pm) because we want to have as much time with each other as possible!! We look forward to seeing everyone!!

Responding to our Children and Inexpensive Gifts!

What a great Teen Mops meeting we had on October 25th! We'd like to say a big Thank You to the group who provided our meal of chili and also to Stephanie Lyon for speaking such amazing truth to us on how to respond to our children. If you weren't able to attend, Stephanie shared many Bible verses that will really help when raising your little ones:

Proverbs 22:6 - "Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it."

Proverbs 15:1 - "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."

Luke 6:45b - "For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks"

Galatians 5:22 - "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control."

Some practical points to remember:

-Pray daily for yourself and your kids to have Godly responses.

-Sometimes you just need to delay your responses until you've calmed down.

-Instead of shouting, try lowering your voice and get down on their level.

-Humble yourself and apologize to your child when you've been wrong.

-Catch your kids doing good things and praise them for it!

We then had some fun craft time making cork boards:

Blankets:

And Christmas ornaments:

All while our kids were being loved on and cared for:

We are so excited to see you all again this coming Monday, November 8th!!