A new day

Some days we are going to do alot worse than good. Some days we are going to fail as parents. We are going to end the day feeling why was I given charge of this/these beautiful child/ren when all I do is going to fail them. Sometimes we might punish them before understanding the whole situation or we may not hold them to the behaviour standard that we have set and their behaviour has then got out of control. There is so many things we can do to 'mess up' our precious little ones, we are responsible for such a great yet difficult task in bringing up our children with love, discipline and wisdom and when we know we have failed at the end of one day what can we do?

We have a decision to make.
Do we throw up our hands and say 'I' just can't do this'?
Do we think 'I'm too tired to keep this up, I'll just stop them doing the bad stuff and let them get away with the rest'?
Do we say to ourselves 'I'll just make sure I love them and God will look after the rest'?
Or do we let go of the past (be it a day, or the whole of our lives) and go forth and love our children, discipline our children and teach them all about God and the wisdom He has.
Do we remind ourselves that God was the one who blessed us with these children and He would never give us a challenge that we couldn't handle.

When you have a bad day, when you are feeling down or worst a failure.
Remember tomorrow is a New Day:)

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I haven't written in a while as I have been getting ready for my "baby's" birthday.
And the one thing I wanted to share was how nice it is to do special things for our children. For me I really wanted to start a new tradition in our family. It was that my husband bring our daughter pink flowers for her birthday. It is something that can be done each year and as she grows up it would be something that would come to mean something more and more. Unfortunately the florist was shut by the time hubby left work but Lord willing it will be something to keep in mind for next year.

I got this idea from a book which talked alot about having family traditions. Some families take a Christmas portrait, others take a bike ride on a Saturday afternoon, others go camping at Easter. It is really something that your children can look back upon and remember these things as special times in their lives. Establishing family traditions can also be establishing our legacy. Something that can be pasted down from children to grandchildren.

I encourage you to think about making traditions for your family. It doesn't have to be done often, maybe just a yearly occurrence. It doesn't matter what age your children are, if they are too young it is something you can tell them that you did when they are older. If they are older it can be a way of re-connecting with them. They may not want to give up their time but maybe it can be a tradition of sending them a text message at the start of the week telling them that you hope they have a great week.

Now is a great time to create traditions and begin new legacies.