Class #8-Service (Follow Up)

• One lady in our class told this story....Her older daughter saw a nightgown and wanted it.  Mom wouldn't buy it.  The other daughter went to the Mom and said she wanted to buy it for her sister for her birthday.  It was a ridiculous price.  She tried to talk her daughter out of it.  She bought it anyway and gave it to her for her birthday.  Sister Tanner suggested that to finish learning the lesson she needed to provide opportunities for her daughter to earn the money she needed to restock what she had spent on the birthday gift to buy future Christmas gifts rather than that parents just giving her the Christmas money because they were proud of how unselfish and giving she had been.
• Life is full of windows.  This is a one time shot.  You will never have this opportunity to influence these people in the same way ever again.
• It takes courage to get our of our circle and give
• Read "A Heart Like His" by Virginia Pearce
• "Welcome the inconvenience brought on by another's need"
• Our children need to see us as real people.  We need to share 'some' experiences about when we weren't perfect.  Don't share so many that you lose credibility as a parent.
• If your child says, "You are always yelling at me."  Maybe you could say, "I'm sorry I didn't realize you felt like I was yelling so much.  I will try to use a softer voice to talk to you."