Best Use:As a family activity early in the new year. Nutritional Value:Creating memorable teaching moments about the Church’s calendar and making your household calendar Christ-centered.
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Holidays: Christmas Gifts from the Heart
Best Use:As a Christmas family activity. Nutritional Value:Focusing on the true meaning of Christmas as you celebrate Christ’s birth and find ways to give gifts that money cannot buy.
Mealtime Prompts: Planning Your 2020 Christmas
Best Use:To guide a discussion with your household on your expectations and plans this Christmas. Nutritional Value:Helps you celebrate your favorite holiday memories, identify your expectations for this year and plan for a memorable joy-filled Christmas.
Managing Family Finances
The Bible has a lot to say about money and much that is specifically of value for someone trying to be intentional about family relationships. A financial treadmill of working and consuming can dominate your energy and thoughts to the degree that your good intentions for family relationships get squeezed out. How can you masterContinue reading “Managing Family Finances”
Single Parent
One of life’s greatest blessings and sources of joy is being called somebody’s parent. But if you find yourself raising children alone, you know better than anyone else that parenting is a job meant for two. That’s why Dr. James Dobson calls single parenting “the toughest job in the universe.” Few understand the loneliness andContinue reading “Single Parent”
Mealtime Prompts: Crafting a Vision Statement for Your Household
Best Use:To guide a discussion with your household on shared family vision. Nutritional Value:Helps you identify and celebrate your family’s values; gives you an opportunity to share your dreams for your family and create a shared vision for the future.
Singles: Self-Care and Spiritual Growth Plan
Best Use:As a prayer guide or a conversation with a friend. Nutritional Value:Helps you plan what activities and time slots to protect during the coming twelve months for building a strong plan for self-care and spiritual growth.
Grandparents: Passing on a Strong Christian Legacy
Best Use:To guide memorable faith discussions with your grandchildren. Nutritional Value:Helps you launch frequent faith discussions in order to pass down a strong Christian legacy to your grandchildren.
Mealtime Prompts: Reflecting on the Pandemic
Discussion guide to help your whole household look back over the past few months Best Use:To guide as a dinner discussion starter with everyone in your home. Nutritional Value:Helps you reflect on the ups and downs of the past year and all the changes the pandemic has brought to our lives.
Grand Ideas: Connect with Your Grandchild
Activities and Ideas to Connect with Your Grandchild Best Use : Make a plan, mark your calendar and make it a priority to foster the relationship you have together. Nutritional Value: As a grandparent, you have an incredible opportunity to invest time, energy and creativity into your grandchild(ren).