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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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The secret of true freedom
There s a new article I recently published on my other website called "freedomthatmatters". You can read the article by visiting here or read it right here:
How we can create an environment in which our child can perceive its feelings
As mentioned in the last two articles (here and here) , I participated in a webinar - an online seminar - presented live from Canada. The speaker was Gordon Neufeld and the title was "Making Sense of Troubled Kids". Many insights, revelations and important information...
Why we should never use attachment as a weapon against our children
As mentioned in the last article, I recently attended a webinar - an online seminar - presented live from Canada.The speaker was Gordon Neufeld and the title was "Making Sense of Troubled Kids". Many insights, revelations and important information were gathered in...
Difficult children – a look under the iceberg
- Making sense of troubled Kids- A résumé from an online webinar, held by Gordon Neufeld Phd A few weeks ago I took part in a webinar - an online seminar - which was broadcast live from Canada. The speaker was Gordon Neufeld and the title was: Understanding difficult...
The influence of attachment on family values
When our girl was about three years old, she was of a very independent spirit. She was a happy little girl; however, she didn’t need us, as it seemed.When we went for a walk, she walked in front or behind us. She never came for a cuddle and showed herself pretty...
Why values in a family are so important part 2
In the last article I wrote on how we as a family implement principles and values into our children. How we don’t simply “go with the flow” but deliberately choose what we want to accept into our family. We don’t let just anything our society presents to us enter our...
Why the image we have of authority is so important
Last week I received a link from a lecture by Haim Omer, a teacher and author from Israel, who gave a presentation on "The New Authority, Part 1". (lecture hold in german.) I found the topic very exciting and diligently took notes.This article is now based on these...
Why children need to experience real life with us, their parents
The beautiful thing about being a parent, is that we teach our children real life. There is a big difference between children that grew up in a family and children that, most of the time, were put in a day care. As Jesper Juul explains in his book ”No! The art of...
What if you feel too empty to love your family?
As I drove home from church, I made a simple but urgent prayer: "Lord, this week was so packed with all the “last week of summer vacation-stuff” – and I have no inspiration what I should write about in my weekly article! Please, I need your help!”A small voice talked...
How to walk a way of transformation – four steps toward freedom
This past week, our family spent some amazing days in a lovely family hotel in the south of Germany, in midst of the beautiful nature of Bayern. We were part of a camp, organized by our church. I enjoyed my break from cooking and cleaning; but even more than that, I...
How the traits of my father follow me and how I learned to deal with it
Last week I wrote an article about „My father- and how I learned to honor him“. There I wrote how there was a time when I was “rejecting him and everything (and everyone) resembling him.” How today, “I recognize those attributes of him that I see in myself as well....
My father – and how I learned to honor him
When I think of my father today, I see a man who is very upright. Someone who would always give his best. He would never do something he knows would be wrong. His moral standards are very, very high. For years, he worked in a job he actually hated, in order to feed...
How last week I had to force my kids into their happiness
I know how to make my children happy. Chocolate for our girl, permission to play "Rollercoaster Tycoon" on the computer for our oldest, a trip to the Dinosaur Museum for our third one... I could include a whole list of my children's wishes here. And frankly, I love...
What our youngest had in common with a little Chihuahua
A few weeks ago I had a talk with Heinz Etter. I love to hear his insights about challenges we face in raising our children – he has this special capacity to not only grasp the situation I see but to point out things I don't see. This happened again on that talk.I...
How a reader’s family applied the idea of talking about sexuality with their children
A few weeks ago, when I wrote a multi-part article on "Sexuality - should we talk about it with our children", I was well aware that this was a challenging topic for many families.Despite the media surge of explicit material, many of us find it difficult to deal with...
A bad day – and two insights coming out of it
Did you ever have one of those days, when you worked hard all day while having a hard time to focus and not really accomplishing that much? Well I had one of those days this week. It was one of the first really hot days of summer. I did have some trouble concentrating...