Inspired Practices

Young Persons Mentor/Uplifting Parenting –

Freeing your household

By believing in yourself, you give yourself the freedom to make decisions for your household.

Your perspective is the one that is important.

You are able to see how to organize your home and the household members for maximum freedom and harmony.

The routines you put in place keep the common areas and personal areas clean.

You are able to oversee all this by the rest you give yourself.

You are able to think clearly as you plan menus and organize transportation and pay bills.

Nothing that restricts your ability to see what needs to be done and to carry it out is allowed inside your household.

It may be necessary from time to time to remind household members what the standards are in this place.

There is good opportunity for conversations and discussions about what constitutes the values and freedoms provided through your authority.

This is comforting guidance as young people grow up and are exposed to other values.

They have a sound operating basis and gain responsibility as they gain more competence.

Nothing can replace the confidence of authentic self-sufficiency and good time management.

Good resource management carries over into finances and into job excellence.

These powerful and uplifting qualities of mind attract great opportunities.

The feeling of excellence and confidence shines through the way each household member interacts within and outside the home.

You free your household from distraction by providing excellent quality of food at each meal.

Nutrition plays such an important part in people being able to concentrate and to relax.

Each step you take in household management provides greater freedom to do what people love.

It provides time for family games and movie night.

It provides time to go to museums and concerts.

It provides good material for uplifting conversation.

You add to everyone’s ability to make uplifting contributions to society and to civilization.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com

Young Persons Mentor/Uplifting Parenting –

 Travel with Children

When I travel, I notice the many families who are traveling with their children.

It is hard for all of us, to be on the move over long periods of time.

One of the ways to make it easier for children is to bring practical activities to fulfill their needs.

I love the idea of activity packs.

When we used to drive for several hours with our children, I used to pack self-contained renewable activities.

I would take the opportunity to invest in some new toys and wrap them as presents.

I gave them something new each hour over a four-hour trip.

One was an Etch-a-Sketch game.

Another was Mad Libs.

They also enjoyed Word Search books.

They always had a notebook to write in.

I helped one child write a story of our trip.

One time I packed a bag of activities for a family who would be travelling overseas.

I packed a kaleidoscope, a sketchpad and different drawing materials.

Even though there are electronics for movies, it is good to have some hands-on activities to engage the children differently along their trip.

There are so many word-games and card games to play.

In my childhood we used to play “Twenty-Questions” to try to figure out the object the other person had in mind.

We also played “Hang-man”, filling in the seven spaces to guess the word before we finished  drawing the gallows, the rope and the man.

A fun book of poetry is good to read and to teach the children by having them repeat each line back to you.

Later, they can read it to themselves through memory as a quiet, self-contained activity.

It is good to have a small stuffed animal for dramatic play, telling it stories.

It is valuable to practice these games and activities before traveling so they are familiar.

© 2023 Kathryn Hardage

http://www.shareinspirationandpeace.com