{Being the Parents...}

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 So Just to get out to the boring 10 for tuesday list type posts I've been stuck in a rut doing for everything 

I've been thinking okay so this is a ME THINKS POST :)

 alot about the things we do as 

parents how much it affects children.......... what we do. 

How our choices have such a bearing on our children because honestly they watch us far more then we think they do.....the things we do and our examples is what builds them up or tears them down...

So I was thinking of some of the things that I love doing with my kids that my parents did with us...

Things like reading together, praying together and eating together

the importance of record keeping 

and scripture reading no matter what age you are

and then the simple things like 

Sunday Disney popcorn nights 

{do the dishes during commercials listening for the "its on" call}

fun times:)

or simple things like these songs that I loved singing with my siblings and now my kids love when we put it on!

If you don't have these they are such cute fun songs they are on itunes too:) 

Then I was thinking about the awesome articles and kicks in the butt we get from all over I love this article from here 

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1.}How to miss a childhood: The dangers of paying more attention to your cell phone than your children

 I don't want my kids to remember that I was on the phone or computer all the time...I want to be present now...

2.}I love this article from here and I love that when I was reading it my kids will already have some of these memories because we do some of them already but I always love new ideas too!! There are so many things we can be doing that don't take much to build happy memories:)

I love this. To many parent/ children friends. We need more parents to be THE parent, not buddy buddy friends whose children can do no wrong and face no consequences of there actions.  Our children need to face responsibility and have CONSEQUENCES for their actions makes them better well adjusted adults and children.

AND some awesome quotes I love this week on parenting{

if you are my fb friend you get quoted to death and probably have already read these but I love them}

Parents, be patient with your children. Read to your little children and help them with their schoolwork, even if you need to tell or show them the same thing many times. Elder Richard L. Evans said, “If they find that they can trust us with their trivial questions, they may later trust us with more weighty ones”.

and this one

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out ... Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value ... The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days." 

President Gordon B. Hinckley

I love these because I feel like now more than ever in the history of our world  ..... its more important to TEACH our kids to be there for them and teach them the lessons of life.

Make memories listen and love.

None of us are perfect and thats why we have each other:) To learn from, to encourage and lift us up on all the good and bad days...

because there will be lots of those :) 

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"The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."

- Jim Henson 


One of the most frustrating jobs out there, but also the most rewarding for sure!!
 
Have a great week make some memories