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9. March 2010

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Cultivating Great Kids – Selflessness

This is one post in a series on Cultivating Great Kids
One of the character qualities that I want to cultivate in my kids is selflessness.  I want my kids to think of others, to not be consumed with themselves.  I want them to see the needs of those around them and be willing to give [...]

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4. March 2010

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Family Devotions

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Spending time as a family reading God’s Word, praying and learning what it means to better follow Jesus is one of the most important things that we can do together.  You can call it family devotions, family worship, God time or whatever else you want.   Today I’m just going to walk you through how we [...]

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2. March 2010

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Cultivating Great Kids

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This post is the first in what will be a series on cultivating great kids.
I’m not a farmer and I’ve never had much luck with gardens but I do understand the process of how things grow.
Cultivating is the process in which we help things grow.  Here are some definitions of what it means to cultivate:
To [...]

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1. March 2010

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Schedule Change

I just wanted to let you know that it has become apparent that I need to change my posting schedule.  I am going to move to posting twice a week.  From now on I will post on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
My goal is to give you quality content as opposed to just meeting a schedule.  Hopefully [...]

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24. February 2010

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How To Keep Discipline Consistent and Fair

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One of the issues that we face as parents is how to keep discipline consistent and fair.  It’s easy to set rules but more difficult to enforce some of our household rules on a consistent basis.
I’ve come across a tool that I think will help us with enforcing some of our rules, it’s called an [...]

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22. February 2010

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Our Household Rules (for today at least)

Our Household Rules (for today at least)

I want to start out by thanking everybody that helped me out by participating in the survey.  If you didn’t fill it out yet I would still really appreciate your input.
One thing that I want to make very clear is how much I love my wife and my kids. My wife is amazing and so [...]

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18. February 2010

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4 Questions – 4 Minutes

I want Becoming A Better Dad to be a place that is beneficial for you, the readers. In order to do a better job of being helpful, I need to hear from you. Please take 4 minutes to answer this 4 question survey. I am grateful that you take a portion of [...]

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