My oldest son, Shawn (25), spoke with me again! This time we addressed the topic of letting children be creative and giving them freedom to explore and do things their way instead of insisting that they do things a certain way (mom’s way) – things that are supposed to be fun and free and creative.
Even when we have great ideas and imagine our kids loving them and doing such neat, fun projects or activities, if the kids don’t like them or want to do them, sometimes we moms have to let it go, and switch gears. We have to let them do their own thing and maybe they will come up with something even cuter or more creative than what the lesson planner came up with.
Whatever the results of the project, it’s almost certain that the experience will be better for your child than it would have been if you had forced him to do something he really didn’t like or want to do.
Click on the link below to see the scope we did about this topic:
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
