Practical Parenting Tips for Teaching Significance: Part 2

Aug 7, 2013 by Jim and Jerolyn Bogear

Parenting is probably the hardest job you will ever have. So why not take some ideas from others to help you do your best at it? Instilling values in our children gives them a foundation to grow into healthy, productive adults. Without values, they can easily be drawn into a secular worldview that will lead them down many wrong paths.

Significance is the sixth value that our family has adopted to help us live lives that leave a legacy for those who come behind us. If you didn’t get to read the first list of tips we gave, you can check out Tuesday’s post.

Here is the second half:  

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Practical Parenting Tips for Teaching Significance: Part 1

Aug 5, 2013 by Jim and Jerolyn Bogear

Our sixth value that we parent with is Significance. Many strive for success, but we choose significance. What of myself will I leave behind when I am gone? We believe we live a significant life as we love, laugh, and learn. In other words, it’s all about relationships — spending time with family, friends, co-workers, neighbors. How we live life with those people our life touches will be our legacy.

Today and Thursday we will list some practical ideas on how to instill a life of significance in our children.

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