– from Identity
to destiny –
Welcome! I am so glad you are here!
Welcome! I am so glad you are here!
This website will provide you with new articles about family life, education, marriage, personal growth and about faith. The content is profound, practical, based on love. It honors you as a family and an individual, independently of your origin and social background. I will share with you the insights of my journey to be this successful woman, wife and mother. I enjoy my life with a deep gratefulness in my heart – and the aim is to share what I’ve learned with you. Come and join the thousands of readers from all over the world!
With love,
Jeanne from familythatmatters
This website will provide you with new articles about family life, education, marriage, personal growth and about faith. The content is profound, practical, based on love. It honors you as a family and an individual, independently of your origin and social background. I will share with you the insights of my journey to be this successful woman, wife and mother. I enjoy my life with a deep gratefulness in my heart – and the aim is to share what I’ve learned with you. Come and join the thousands of readers from all over the world!
With love,
Jeanne from familythatmatters
Culture is not culture until it shows up in the children
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Different beliefs about Destiny – and how they will impact our family
From Identity to destiny – this is our slogan from familythatmatters. This is our vision statement. A vision statement is a way to explain in one sentence who we are, why we exist, what is distinctive about us and what we do want to accomplish. All the...
What Queen Esther has to do with the new year’s resolution
While this post may sound somewhat unusual to some people – especially men or easy going people in general, the principles described have helped countless people who were dealing with any kind of shame in their lives. It’s the end of one year, 2018 and the beginning...
The reason why I am thankful on Christmas
My house is decorated with lights Christmas decoration and candles. Presents are ready, cookies are made, Christmas-dinner planned, family celebrations are all organized … and our home is filled with expectation and our children are full of this tingling sensation for...
How to stop fighting against the personality differences of your child
It has been amazing to watch the change that occurred in the life of our boy since that moment we had our first counseling session concerning our 5-year old a month ago. He has made a huge amount of progress in his whole being. He didn’t “change”. He still loves to...
How the advice of an expert changed my view about my 5-year old
As I told you in the last article, there are times when we have such kind of issues with one of our children, that we ask a good friend or an expert for help.This is what we did lately.I sent Heinz Etter an e-mail, where I wrote him about our...
How active appreciation can shape a family culture
In the last Article I've shared with you how active appreciation has changed my life. How Benny brought this into our marriage, and how it transformed me over the years. Today, it is not only our marriage that is bathed in active appreciation, but it has turned into a...
Labels and diagnosis we give our children – and how they affect them
During my years in South America I often observed how children were called by adjectives instead of their names. They were called names like “El gordito”(fat), “flaquito” (slim), “gringo”(western, white skin) , “negro”(black – having a dark skin) etc. In the...
I don’t love him – feelings of a married woman and her understanding of true love
I haven’t been writing much, concerning this section of marriage … simply because I feel like Benny is the one making our marriage as easy and beautiful as it is. He’s a man of quality, and everything he does; he does with excellence – including being a husband....
Some personal thoughts on my first year running this Website
When I started with that website exactly one year ago, I had mainly one thing in mind: To write down all these “articles” I had been formulating in my head for years, to write down all my revelations and understandings I had been telling people about, to write down...
The 6 Stages of attachment – and how to repair missing stages part 2
In last week’s article we’ve been looking at the six stages of attachment. We we’ve seen how there is a maturing process going on with the purpose to create solid attachment. This attachment creates a solid bond between the child and the parent, making our task as...
The 6 Stages of attachment – and how to repair missing stages part 1
Last week, I attended training for parents, provided by the school our oldest child goes to. I enjoy such trainings, as I find it highly interesting and challenging to get exposed to insights about raising my kids. There is one of the elements of that training that...
“I can’t forgive” – the perspective from someone that faced abuse
In last week's article I have been digging quite a bit into the whole subject of abuse — once again. The first time I was confronted to that subject was during my time in a Christian counseling home about 15 years ago. It was during that time I met Téo....
Ways to protect our Kids – let’s talk about the Reality of Pedophiles
Todays Post is not an easy read. However, I can assure you – it is of utmost importance. It is a “must” for every parent to get educated about this subject. As I entered motherhood, I discovered this intense feeling I didn’t even know the existence of, before: This...
Are we acting as manager or as buffers for our children?
Being a family implies that we live in a certain society, a culture, that has its values, norms and demands. As parents we often are influenced by that pressure to fit in, to have children, who are adapted, quick and clever enough. Many times, the temptation for us...
The secret of celebrating a loved one
I’ve never been much of a birthday- person. Of course, I appreciated the gifts I received. But if someone forgot about my birthday, I didn’t really care that much. The same came true for the birthday of others. I never was good at remembering birthdays. Concerning my...
The day when I became a princess, I found my prince
I still remember that one evening, when I was sitting in front of my computer. I lived in Zurich, was about 28 years old and I was doing my studies as a small children educator. That evening I was bored and lonely. Therefore, playing around with Google, I wrote:...