– 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
by culturofhonor
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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...
Children and Technology – should we even try to stop it? Part 3
As we have seen in the last two articles, the topic "media and children" is about more than competence. It's about maturity. In the first article, we took a closer look at what the word " literacy" really means. The second article showed how we can support our...
Children and Technology – should we even try to stop it? 2.Part
Today's generation of parents (especially those who already have older children and teenagers) still had a childhood with cassettes, walkmans, televisions with only three channels and telephone booths. The first computers of that time cannot be compared with what we...
Children and Technology – should we even try to stop it?
I still remember well how my father brought the first computer into our house in 1993. I remember the first versions of Windows, the scratchy sound when we tried to connect the PC to the Internet, our first printer and how we stored documents on floppy disks. My...
Great news on the 2. anniversary of familythatmatters.com
Since I opened this website two years ago, many things have happened in my life. It has been a journey into something I am very passionate about: Writing around the subject of family. A platform to share my insights, thoughts, experiences and my personal learning...
When saying goodbye to my prince charming doesn’t mean entering a real fairytale
While I was still writing my last article (Saying goodbye to prince charming – to live a real fairytale), I was aware that there are people who are in a really difficult situation in their marriage. I was aware that my challenges with Benny were only everyday issues...
Saying goodbye to prince charming – to live a real fairytale
Have you ever looked at other couples, feeling that they, contrary to your marriage, have it all together? That they are both fulfilled and happy, living a fairy tale marriage? I have met couples who have looked perfect. I’ve looked up to them, they seemed to have it...
The story about unbecoming stressed with our two-year old
Even though this article is about the age of two, Frank and Catherine Fabiano in their book "Die Herzen unserer Kinder berühren"(Touching the hearts of our children) raise our hope by telling us that if we missed the point with this stage of life, God has given us...
The Hardships and the Fruits of investing in your Kids
As you've probably read in this post, we have a family bed – well it has grown beyond one bed as our family has grown, but we do sleep in one room. There was a time the oldest two were sleeping in their own room and they did very well. However, after a while they...
Different beliefs about Destiny – and how they will impact our family Part 3
Mindset of the wealthy Like I tried to make sure in the two past articles, I will not talk about money here. This article will not treat the subject of how to become rich and live a life of luxury. You could rather compare this article to the one called...
Different beliefs about Destiny – and how they will impact our family Part 2
Mindset of middle class In the last article we saw that our worldview is greatly influenced by our upbringing, the world we live in, be it poverty, middle class or wealth. We saw that wealth is not equal to riches or possession but rather a...