"And now word to you parents. Don't keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful. Rather, bring them up with the loving discipline the Lord himself approves, with suggestions and Godly advice." Ephesians 6: 4

I was a career Mom in the beginning..a change began while being flat on my back recuperating from another back attack. No longer commuting to my job, rushing to get the kids (at that point they were age four and seven) to school and nursery school etc; everyone in the house was calmer our seven year old was moving into stage that I called The "getting on with life next stage of child development"...translation Bully in the lunch room, Bully on the playground, what to wear... and on and on.

At the same time we'd already experienced 2 job losses. The financial loss was causing stress on our marriage; we attended a Marriage Encounter Weekend for our tenth anniversary present to each other. My parents kept the kids and we immersed ourselves in the experience...into learning about how special and powerful marriage is in the Lord' s economy. .

"Husbands show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the Church when He died for her to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and god's Word so that He could give her to himself as a glorious Church without a single spot or wrinkle or any other blemish, being holy and without a single spot. That is how husbands should treat their wives, loving them as parts of themselves." Ephesians 5: 25-28 The Living Bible

Re-committing ourselves to Him and each other by repeating our vows on that weekend.. Now we were ready to tackle our older child's Second Grade stuff. (Or so we thought)

"There is no doubt that it is around the family
and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”

Sir Winston Churchill

Be Encouraged, this is not to say a career Mom cannot accomplish great parenting.
Continuing in Him,
Miss Huldah