I don't get so many of the "just out on the shelves" all the way out here in Sweden, but I did snap up this book.
Loving the little years...Motherhood in the trenches.
If you have small kids or know someone that does, get this book for them. It is a witty book, but also goes right to the heart of childraising. If all our actions are "right" but our attitude is wrong, they will pick up on that and that will cancel out a lot of our other hard work!
The author, Rachel Jankovic, blogs on desiringgod.org webpage, you can read some more of her blogging here: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/authors/rachel-jankovic
I think instead of giving a "review," I will let the book speak for itself.
“Sometimes parents can discipline behaviors over and over and over like we are playing whack-a-mole. There is a sin! Get it! This can get very frustrating when it doesn’t seem to be helping anything. We think we are being so diligent! But the real problem is that the child doesn’t know what to do with it.
…Little girls need help sorting out their emotions–not so they can wallow in them, but so they can learn to control them..
We tell our girls that their feelings are like horses– beautiful, spirited horses. But they are the riders. We tell them that God gave them this horse when they were born, and they will ride it their whole life… When our emotions act up, it is like the horse trying to jump the fence and run down into a yucky place… horses are not the problem. There is nothing wrong with the emotions. If we have a little rider who is woefully unprepared to control her horse, well then, we had better start with some pretty serious riding lessons.
Little girls can be scared out of their minds when their emotions charge off with them. They need the security of parents pulling them back.
The goal is not to cripple the horse, but equip the rider…runaway horses can be a very real threat to your little girl.” (Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches by Rachel Jankovic p.29-30)
"If there is anything I have learned in the course of my fast and furious mothering journey, it is that there is only one thing in my entire life that must be organized- my attitude. If my attitude falters, even in the midst of external order, so does everything else."
"The state of your heart is the state of your home. You cannot harbor resentment secretly toward your children and expect their hearts to be submissive and tender. You cannot be greedy with your time and expect them to share their toys. Most importantly you cannot resist your opportunities to be corrected by God and expect them to receive correction from you."
"Repenting.Forgiving.Laughing- Lots and LOTS of laughing. There is no room in motherhood to take yourself seriously. Its like trying to strike “cool” poses on a rug that someone is continually pulling out from underneath you."
Loving the little years...Motherhood in the trenches.
If you have small kids or know someone that does, get this book for them. It is a witty book, but also goes right to the heart of childraising. If all our actions are "right" but our attitude is wrong, they will pick up on that and that will cancel out a lot of our other hard work!
The author, Rachel Jankovic, blogs on desiringgod.org webpage, you can read some more of her blogging here: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/authors/rachel-jankovic
I think instead of giving a "review," I will let the book speak for itself.
“Sometimes parents can discipline behaviors over and over and over like we are playing whack-a-mole. There is a sin! Get it! This can get very frustrating when it doesn’t seem to be helping anything. We think we are being so diligent! But the real problem is that the child doesn’t know what to do with it.
…Little girls need help sorting out their emotions–not so they can wallow in them, but so they can learn to control them..
We tell our girls that their feelings are like horses– beautiful, spirited horses. But they are the riders. We tell them that God gave them this horse when they were born, and they will ride it their whole life… When our emotions act up, it is like the horse trying to jump the fence and run down into a yucky place… horses are not the problem. There is nothing wrong with the emotions. If we have a little rider who is woefully unprepared to control her horse, well then, we had better start with some pretty serious riding lessons.
Little girls can be scared out of their minds when their emotions charge off with them. They need the security of parents pulling them back.
The goal is not to cripple the horse, but equip the rider…runaway horses can be a very real threat to your little girl.” (Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches by Rachel Jankovic p.29-30)
"If there is anything I have learned in the course of my fast and furious mothering journey, it is that there is only one thing in my entire life that must be organized- my attitude. If my attitude falters, even in the midst of external order, so does everything else."
"The state of your heart is the state of your home. You cannot harbor resentment secretly toward your children and expect their hearts to be submissive and tender. You cannot be greedy with your time and expect them to share their toys. Most importantly you cannot resist your opportunities to be corrected by God and expect them to receive correction from you."
"Repenting.Forgiving.Laughing- Lots and LOTS of laughing. There is no room in motherhood to take yourself seriously. Its like trying to strike “cool” poses on a rug that someone is continually pulling out from underneath you."
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