– 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 to break free from poisonous Pedagogy today
In today’s article we will explore some more the subject of poisonous pedagogy. Then I will share with you how today I am able to recognize the pattern of poisonous pedagogy and how I am able to choose new ways and apply a new mindset for how I view God, how I see my...
An essay about Poisonous Pedagogy back in time and Today
Regardless of the season of my life, I have always had one final goal in mind: I wanted to be able to start a family. Not just any family. I longed for a healthy family. I knew, even in the years of "rebellion", while I was questioning all the values and things taught...
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...
Why we have a family bed and how it works for us
This Article is not at all an attempt to convert you into a “Family bed -lover”. I have many friends who know about our way of doing that, telling me “for such or such reason, I would never be able to do it like you do!” And you know what? This is totally fine. What...
40 years old – how I grew into being myself
This week I turned 40 – and I was thinking about sharing something meaningful with you about my own life.This is a beautiful season of life for me. Not because I have it all together, nor because I understand it all. I haven’t figured out how to be perfect or how to...
Chaotic, goal-oriented and structured — camping from the perspective of a friend
For my upcoming round birthday I got a very special present: A friend of mine wrote an article in which she describes the holidays we spent with our children at a campsite in the south of France this spring. Her description touched me deeply, made me smile and gave me...
Family Vacation – a good Time to review Family Vision and Values
We spent the last three weeks as a family in the south of France. These yearly vacations are of high value for us, as these are a couple of unique days to spend lots of time together, to experience many adventures as a family, to spend hours around the dinner table –...
How to experience happiness in midst of challenges, pain and personal mistakes
Have you ever had to face a reality that was not what you wanted it to be? A life that didn't turn out the way you imagined? The reality of failure or meaningful mistakes, a painful loss or situations that turned out differently than planned? I did. And actually, I've...
From crying to happy in 10 seconds – or – what makes a Kid tough
Over the ages, many a parent must have pondered about how they can prevent their kids from becoming crybabies and instead become strong, stable and tough persons. While this may apply to boys in particular, I am sure parents want brave daughters as well. Daughters who...
How we rise our children bilingual without us being bilingual parents
I love languages. Today, I speak fluently German, French, English and Spanish. I’m also learning Portuguese and Swedish on a daily basis. This is not something that was predestined from my upbringing. Even though I have French and Scandinavian roots, I wasn’t raised...
How to find rest in your relationship with your own parents
As I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, we started to talk about our parents. We talked about the challenge of facing our reality. This desire to have a good, loving relationship with our parents. And how, in some situations, this is nearly impossible. How...
Why I won’t push my children’s self-confidence and what I nurture instead
As a mother, I want my children to be confident in who they are. I see part of successful parenting in having children that have identity, that they are solidly rooted in life, with confidence and security. However, I don’t want children with inflated egos. I don’t...
Challenges of parenting – in light of the imprints of our past
I have a friend from childhood, who today is married and a mother of 3 children. She is a very devoted mother who loves her children above all else and wants the best for them. Nevertheless, one often hears her yelling at her children, for completely irrelevant...