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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
by culturofhonor
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How to turn Problems and Challenges into Adventures
Today, at our holiday place, we've moved from our tent into a bungalow... as we are in the middle of a weather alert level „orange“ - which means heavy winds and rain for the next 24 hours. I would say, this is an adventure. However, one could say: „An...
The importance of the “Five Laws of Life” for you and your family
Once again, I'm sitting in front of our tent in the south of France writing this article.We enjoy these vacations a lot. These are always precious times as a family. This time, a befriended family joined us, and our children love to play together as much as we adults...
The way out of playing the “good girl” or turning into a “bad girl”
After I wrote the last Article about„why I don’t want to be a good girl anymore", I got some feedback from people telling me that they were relieved to read the end. Simply, because the opposite of a “good girl” – is usually a “bad girl”. In our use of language, a...
Why I don’t want to be a nice girl anymore
There was a time in my life when I was (or tried to be) a “nice girl”. I used to be that the kind of girl who tried to be a good citizen by being polite, quiet, obedient, serving, endearing, sweet, gentle – and nice. In my understanding, being a nice girl was...
How a culture of honor in a family can bring forth beautiful results part 2
As we saw in the last Article, a culture of Honor empowers. Honor sets you free – free to change, free to grow, to flourish and to give your best. The same goes for our children – any children under our authority. We saw how there is another way than to define our...
How a culture of honor in a family can bring forth beautiful results part 1
Honoring – can this be a way to raise children? Last week I told you in this Article how Honor is something that keeps our marriage strong. However, Honor is not only something that keeps our marriage strong; it’s also something that shapes our family, the way we...
A worthless activity that absorbed my day-turned around in a precious teaching for my kids.
Those who regularly read my articles know that it is really important for me to invest my heart and life into my children and my husband. I want to be close to them and share my life and heart with them. However, I keep reminding myself that this is a daily decision....
Three important things to consider before bringing your kids to a nursery
In our western world a nursery (in GB the word “crèche” is used) has become indispensable. They allow parents to combine work and family. In some families it is unavoidable in their life situations, for others it’s a cultural norm, for some a standard of living....
“I am so stupid!” – The way we talk to ourselves
This morning I was eating breakfast together with my children, drinking my coffee. With a sudden movement to help one of the children with his cereals, I spoiled my whole coffee over the table, chair and floor. My first, spontaneous reaction was “oh no!”… But then, I...
Halloween is my favorite holiday – Really?
No it is not. But this is a sentence I have read from several friends over social media. In Switzerland it is not that big a deal as it is in other countries. In our little town only a few kids are disguised, coming for a trick and treat. There are some public events...
A vacation on a campground and how realities can be completely different
The past two weeks I have been on a campground with my children. We were in a tent, enjoying the warmth of a beautiful autumn. Since the campground was one of only a few which were open during this fall season, my sister was there with her family during almost the...
How we teach our children to be friends with their siblings.
There is a popular belief (at least in the German-speaking world) that it's normal that siblings quarrel. That siblings have rivalries. And even that siblings can be mean to each other. Well, in my family of origin this was certainly true. We not only quarreled,...
Why my girls challenge became my concern and how I helped her in it.
These days I found myself in a situation with a child that reminded me of the article I wrote last week. I have a very social little girl. She loves to play with others. She’s a very happy and excited girl when there are group activities in school. After the summer...
Six ways to improve the relationship with your entrusted ones- Part two
In the last Article we saw the first three ways of attaching. We talked about Physical proximity, Sameness and Belonging & Loyalty. Here we go for the ways of attaching through Significance, feeling and being known: Significance “This way of pursuing closeness...
Six ways to improve the relationship with your entrusted ones – first part
As announced in the last article, here we go for the different ways of attachment. Working on it I realized again how ample the content of this topic is, so I decided to divide them into two parts. Today, we will look at the first three ways. It is important to...
Should a parent cultivate friendship with their child?
Bonding. Attachment parenting. Friendship with my kids. In the last years, these words became a definition of something that is actually defined in a completely wrong way. The definition is related as a direct relationship with spoiled children that do not respect any...