Teaching Teens Contentment

Last year I shared with you how I am an Author on the All Mom Does blog for Crista Ministries.  You can read about how that all got started here. 

What I keep forgetting to do is to share my articles that I am writing over there, to my readers here at Faith Filled Food for Moms!  My brain can only pump out so much “good” stuff…LOL and after all it IS summer!  So some Friday’s I will be directing you on over there for some great reads.  

In the last 3 weeks I have been doing a little series on Teaching Teens Contentment.  Here is a quick synopsis of each so far and you can decide if you’d like to hop over and read the rest…but I hope you do!

She began to kind of whine about all of her friends going to the river today and that she had to go to work to earn money.   From there it turned into wanting to get her nails done, to her hair done, to getting a car so that she could drive herself around….and on and on.  Now there is nothing wrong with all of those things, but what bothers me is when “wanting” begins to create a discontent heart.  TO READ MORE.

After much prayer we have come up with these 6 ways to continue to teach contentment to our teens.  We have begun to talk about these things and start to implement, and we are already seeing a (small) turn of heart.  Free printable too!  TO READ MORE.

You see I don’t like to “appear” to my children as having ever been the sickest, saddest, addicted woman you could ever meet.  Someone whose life was such a mess that I was sure that even God could not mop it up.  It is a funny thing, today I am still the same Mom I was yesterday and yet my relationship with my daughter is changed forever.   Maybe the hard things she is going through don’t seem so bad or maybe the grace of God and his mighty mercy were a relief to her thirsty soul. READ MORE HERE.

I hope you are having an amazing Summer!

Be Blessed Today! o