Comments on: Teaching Diligence

By: Gina Wong

Gina Wong — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:48:52 +0000

Love it all!! Thank you! You are a blessing!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:29:49 +0000

It is amazing how God sends support when necessary.
There are something’s I would rather not acknowledge as a problem.
– I realize that doesn’t make it go away it just makes it worse.
Reminding myself that I need to be diligent about character training is not good enough though.
I also see that I need to be diligent about all the tasks I have to do every day.
When my children see me take responsibility seriously they see it’s important too.
When my children see me clean up they see that they need to clean up too.
There are days when distractions abound and I’m sure the devil is going from one child to the next telling them the best way to make mom go crazy.
I’m thankful for a Saviour who can listen to me wherever I am.
Not long ago I was just about ready to throw in the towel and send my blessings off to school (me, who said I teach them through high school). It was very, very, very bad day.
So I prayed and God heard me.
I heard Him tell me they are a blessing and my responsibility and my job as a parent is to teach diligence.
A part of which is being diligent with my instruction.
If I can’t teach my own children to behave then how can I expect someone else to teach them how to behave?
It was a humbling time but since then I have been more diligent.
I’m hoping to reap those rewards down the road.
Blessings <

By: Shana

Shana — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:32:36 +0000

OUCH!!! My toes are really hurtiing about now. Being diligent in following through is so important, but it is also one of those ways that Satan will attack us as parents (as mothers and teachers…)I have 7 children, and keeping them diligent and staying diligent myself sometimes seems like a loosing battle. Distractions are built in with a large family! Distractions do not necessarily come in the form of outside activities, many times we can get distracting doing good things and neglect doing the best things.
Hey Kathy…thanks for “meddling”. I enjoy your website, blog and insite!

Shana Smith

By: KiM Matlock

KiM Matlock — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:36:48 +0000

Thanks so much!

My children usually have good attitudes about the work I give them (because they get more if they whine), but the problem is in how long it takes them to finish the job.

For example, I will tell them, “Please pick up your mess.”
They usually say, “Yes, Ma’am”, but… when I come back to check on them they have gotten distracted. I may find part of the job finished and especially one of my boys will be sitting there playing with what he needs to be putting away.

Thank you for giving me a practical example to help with this (more work), because that was my main concern. What “to do” when they do not follow through.

I like your idea of training character first. In our home, we do God’s word first, then character, then school. I *have* seen a difference even though we have only been home-schooling for a few months now.
Rome wasn’t built in a day huh. I completely agree with you about staying home as much as possible. We are not involved in any outside activities besides church and visiting family.

Thank you for taking the time to address this issue