Tag anger
Teenagers, Sass, and Life That Is Truly Life
โAre you going to help me or not?โ I snapped at Daniel, our fifteen year-old-son. Heโd been asking for the past hour to go to a friendโs house. I kept dodging his request while also badgering him to enlist hisโฆ
Whatโs Your Child Really Saying?
It was the first warm day of spring in Minnesota, which usually means MUD. The ground was still soggy from the snow melt, but the air was clean and fresh and the flowers were just beginning to peek through the soil. I was outside with two of our three kids...
What to Do When We Blow Up
As hard as we try to parent like God would, we are human, and sometimes we mess up. We lose our cool, we speak harshly, or sometimes we even blow up at our kids. See how one mom handledโฆ
Did God Spank Moses?
The story of Moses at the burning bush is (thanks to Cecil DeMille and Charlton Heston) one of the most famous stories in the Old Testament (see Exodus 3 & 4). But have you ever read it as an exampleโฆ
How to Avoid Combat with Your Kids
When your kids act up, Stop and Breathe. Breathing clears your mind and calms you down. When you donโt breathe, your brain stays in fight or flight mode and you canโt think clearly. You usually charge in and start a battle.โฆ
Be Angry (if you must) But Donโt Sin.
Sometimes parents get too angry. Other times they donโt get angry enough โ or at least they donโt stand firm to keep kids growing in responsibility for their own lives. In the name of keeping the peace parents sometimes keepโฆ
Managing Kidsโ Anger โ and Ours
We parents sometimes get it backwards. Our kid acts up and we get angry. We then tend to justify our anger saying, โI wouldnโt be angry if you didnโt act up.โ This means that weโve let our child be inโฆ
Teaching Kids to Resolve Conflict
Kids often fight. Teach them three key steps to conflict resolution: 1.) COOL DOWN. 2.) UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER. 3.) FIND A WIN-WIN!
Your Children, Your Mirror
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. James 1:19, 20 Primitive emotions areโฆ
When Kidsโ Disrespect Gets You Fuming!!!
The memory is vivid. Our eldest son Daniel was quick with his tongue when unhappy. Quick and usually ugly. One day I was sternly (โฆOK harshly) disciplining my daughter for laziness, and she burst into tears. Daniel emerged from hisโฆ