Teaching our Children the Value of Quiet (and Boredom too) Melissa and Dave’s Keynote address #2 at the BC Christian Home Educators Conference I believe that there is incredible potential for us to grow our children and a vital need for us to teach them how to embrace and look for opportunity in times of rest, quiet and ESPECIALLY Boredom! Melissa and I shared about this at a recent homeschool…
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Redefining Boredom Part 4 – Opportunity for Spiritual Growth
Boredom as Opportunity for Spiritual Growth Redefining Boredom Part 4 Boredom = Time for spiritual development and relationship with Jesus Boredom, the word and the typical feelings related to the word, is starting to become a word with positive associated feelings for me. Instead of the usually associated feeling of emptiness and needing something to do to fill the time, it’s become an opportunity for REST, CREATIVITY and RELATIONSHIP. There…
Redefining Boredom Part 3 – Opportunity for Creativity
Boredom is Opportunity for Creativity – Redefining Boredom Part 3 For Part 1 click here For Part 2 click here For Part 4 click here In my pursuit to change our response to the word “boredom” in our home, I continually find more benefits of unscheduled time, particularly in our children’s lives as they work toward maturity and independence. This is the third part in a series…
Redefining Boredom Part 2 – Time to Heal
Boredom = Time for Healing Boredom in Our Kids’ Lives Is Actually Time to Heal Our kids’ sadness can be unpleasant and hard for us to deal with ourselves but its necessary. I’ve written in the past about the value of boredom for our kids. When they talk about needing something to do or one of my kids even starts chanting “bored, bored, bored”, I tell them that I’m…
Boredom – Making Room for Relationship with Our Children – Redefining Boredom
Relationship over Activity Have we lost sight of what relationships with our children should look like? I can’t count the number of times that my wife, Melissa, and I have been so caught up in our hectic lives that we have needed to take a step back and ask each other whether what we have involved ourselves and our children in is actually benefitting our family or simply overwhelming us….
Teaching our Kids the Beauty of Boredom – Redefining Boredom Part 1
Boredom Isn’t What You Think it is Teaching our children the value of quiet – Redefining Boredom Part 1 I can’t count the number of times that my wife, Melissa, and I have been so caught up in our hectic lives that we have needed to take a step back and ask each other whether what we have involved ourselves and our children in is actually benefitting our family or…