Have you ever heard the phrase “Love begets love?” This little idiom is an absolute truth bomb. Love actually produces more love. We can increase the amount of love that we experience in our own lives by simply choosing to express love. As we endeavor to live simply loved, I have a challenge to issue for this month. Every Saturday in October here on the blog will be “Share Your Love Saturday.” Your mission is to find a way to show love to someone else. That’s it. No grand gestures required (although a grand gesture now and then never hurt
Category: friends
The concept of friends and building solid friendships is another one of those areas in parenting that requires an on-going conversation with our kids. We begin by helping our children define friendship. When my kids were little, they would refer to anyone that they had played with as their “friend.” During visits to the neighborhood playground they would point out their “friends” to me. When I would ask them to tell me the names of their “friends,” my girls would usually say, “I don’t know. But they’re my friend.” While this is typical for this stage of development, I began