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1/29/2018 January 29, 2018
DO THIS:  Create a “share your cares” text thread for your family. A couple of mornings each week, send a message asking your family what they’re worried or stressed about. Sometimes just sharing what’s on our mind helps alleviate anxiety. Plus, you can encourage each other specifically throughout the day. NEWS: We had a great week at youth last week. I'm so excited to see new families getting excited about what's happening at Grace! READ THIS:  I love my kids. No one had to write a book or make a podcast or do a teaching series to convince me to love them. It happened the first time I felt them kick and squirm as they were growing inside me. It happened the moment they were born, when I held them for the first time and memorized every detail of their bald little heads. I love their giggles, their growing sense of humor, their personalities and their interests. When I think about my kids, there is a love inside that I honestly don’t know how to explain. Maybe that’s the problem. If I’m really honest, there’s something inside me that wants them to know how much I love them. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I know how significant love is in the life of a child and I just hope they know, really know, how much they are loved—but they don’t. How could they? They’re kids. They might never understand or appreciate the way I love them. That’s okay. A kid doesn’t have to understand or appreciate a parent’s love in order to be affected by it. So, what if the best thing we can do for our kids is not to get them to understand how much we love them, but to prove to them that we love them enough. What does enough mean? Maybe, in their world, it’s as simple as SHOWING UP. READ MORE ON THE PARENT CUE BLOG MORE FROM PARENT CUE:  NOW AVAILABLE WEEKLY! For more parenting resources visit www.ParentCue.org
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