– from Identity
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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
by culturofhonor
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How we can redeem each other into our God-given identity
About a year ago I wrote an article called “How individuality in marriage scared me – and how I learned to enjoy it“ There, you could read a conversation we had a few years into our marriage, where I told Benny: “Darling, we have a problem!“ He looked at me puzzled,...
Do we encourage our children to dream?
Have you ever experienced your child telling you something like: "Mommy, I want to fly once..can we go fly with a plane sometime?" Or: "Mommy, see those beautiful ballons over there!" Often we're busy with something else and try to settle the matter quickly: "Yeah, we...
My experiences concerning abuse and what I learned from them
In the past three articles (see here, here and here) I wrote about the somewhat heavy subject of sexual abuse on our children.I found it a difficult task to resume the book I was working with; even though it was a quick read – it was packed with important, relevant...
Hit with a discovery of sexual abuse on your child? Here you’ll find some help on how to manage such a situation.
In this article, you found ways on how to establish a dialogue with children to keep them from being abused. The second article discussed how adults should act to remove doubt and identify possible abuse of the child. In the unfortunate case where abuse has indeed...
How to be prepared to detect sexual abuse of our children
In the last article we saw how difficult it is for most of us to talk about sex, especially with a child. That for adults, sexuality seems trivialized, but as soon as it concerns children, we don't know how to do it." This is one of the reasons why a situation of...
Sexuality – should we talk about it with our children?
As part of my counseling school, which I just started at the beginning of April, we have to read a few books. Here I am in our holidays at the campsite in the south of France with my children and I take the opportunity to read the first book of the compulsory reading:...
The liberated conscience …. Thoughts on an attended lecture on education, given by Heinz Etter
I love to attend lectures on education. Even more if it’s held by Heinz Etter. His way of understanding children, his wisdom to help families, his capacity to suggest a solution that transforms a family are all unique to him. Remember Maria? She felt pretty hopeless...
Choosing a Mindset of Gratitude: How counting your Blessings will change your Life
As you've probably read in the last article, we had some rain during our time in France. In fact, after I had written the last article, it rained continuously for the whole remaining 10 days we were there – and after the one storm alert, level "orange", a second one...
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...
Honor – the secret of our marriage summed up in one word
This week we celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. It feels like yesterday when we stood before the altar… and we promised each other to love and honor each other, through the good and the bad times. We wrote our wedding vows ourselves, they were beautiful. After...
Why we have a family bed and how it works for us part 2
Like I said in part one of this article, my mission is not to convert you into a “Family- bed-lover”. I am not in search of arguments, in order to persuade my readers of doing it the same way we do. Last week I explained to you why we do that way, and how it worked...