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Week 11- Active Parenting

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  In a world where technology is increasingly taking over much of our attention as a society on a regular basis, it is no wonder why people feel a lack of attention in most aspects of their life. Now more than ever you often times can’t even get through a conversation without receiving at least one notification. Regardless of if you check it or not at each buzz your mind is tugged from the current conversation and sharing focus with the new notification. A notification doesn’t have to stop at one buzz. We all have been in a group chat that does not stop “blowing up” and even in the midst of deep conversation our minds can become very distracted.  This has been a new challenge in parenting over the years and is showing the in the behavior of the children of this generation. Michael Popkin has created an Active Parenting Program that takes out the feelings of lacking attention and puts in the feelings of comradery between parents and children. It is likely that undesirable or “b...
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Week 4- Growth Happens When Everyone is True to Themselves

One of my favorite movies is called She’s the Man it is easily the most quoted movie in my house among my sister and I. Quick gist of the movie for those who haven’t seen it is, the main character who loves soccer isn’t able to play on her school team because they cut the girls team due to lack of funding. When she goes to try out for the boys’ team the coach says, “But girls aren’t as fast as boys. Or as strong. Or as athletic. This is not me talking. It’s a scientific fact. Girls can’t beat boys. It’s as simple as that.”  In a turn of events, she pretends to be her brother at a new school and tries out for the boys’ soccer team. Her skills prove good enough and she starts at the opening rival game against her old school. Her secret is exposed during half time and while the boys coach of her old team says they must forfeit her current coach says, “Here at Illyria we don’t discriminate based on gender.”   Not only does this prove my point that She’s the Man has a quote fo...
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Week 8- Stress Doesn't Have to Define Us

As college aged married and young single adults many of us believe that if we could just get money that the majority of our stress would deplete. Or if we just could get a good job, nice house and get a head start on our family goals life would become picture perfect. However, more often than not that just simply isn’t the case. All those things may help but the test of mortality is not to sail through life rather to go through trials and hardships that will draw us closer to our family and ultimately God.  Each of us have different stressors in our own life and we each deal with them in significantly different ways. To one person your load of stress may seem a little bit easier while to another person the load that you are caring would cripple them. This brings in the factor of comparison. Ryan Michael Hawks said, “Stop comparing yourself to others. The results of our comparisons are usually inaccurate because we usually match up our worst with their best. In reality, the person w...
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