Five Ways to Prepare Your Grandchildren for Success-Part 2
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Building a strong work ethic by raising expectations is one way to help prepare your teenage grandchildren for success. Hopefully, in Part 1 you found some helpful ideas for doing that, or at least, you were stimulated to come up with your own ideas. Now, let’s turn...The Power Of Respect
Grandparent with a Purpose Blog “Honor one another above yourselves.” Romans 12:10 To respect is to have regard for the existence, ideas and opinions of other people, to treat them with dignity and honor, being thoughtful and treating others with courtesy. Our relationship with the Lord is the...
Five Ways to Prepare Your Teenage Grandchildren for Success – Part 1
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Grandparents want to see their grandchildren grow up and become successful. For Christian grandparents, we understand that success is not measured by career or financial accomplishments as much as integrity of character and contentment in Christ and His purposes. The...My Grandma Is Praying Proverbs 16:3 For Me
Grandparent with a Purpose Blog “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, And your plans will succeed.” (Proverbs 16:3) Lord, this proverb tells us we need to place our plans in Your hands in order to be successful. I pray that my grandchild would be deliberate in seeking You to direct his/her...
A Worthy Patriarch
Courageous Grandparenting Blog Last week I looked at qualities of a matriarch who we might not always associate with a typical concept of a matriarch. Contrary to a typical image of a strong, outgoing personality, I used my aunt as an example. She was a very quiet person, yet resolute and strong in...Noah Found Favor In The Eyes Of The Lord
Grandparent with a Purpose Blog Noah was a righteous and blameless man, among the people of his time, and he walked with God. God saw that the earth was filled with corruption, violence and depravity however, Noah did all that the Lord commanded him to do. (Genesis 6:9, 11, 22) Even though it had...
Do You See Yourself as a Patriarch or Matriarch?
Courageous Grandparenting Blog When you hear the words patriarch or matriarch, what comes to mind? Old? Powerful? Influential? Those are things we often associate with these terms. By definition a patriarch or matriarch is the man or woman who is the oldest in a family or tribe, and possesses...Do Not Follow The Crowd
Grandparent with a Purpose Blog “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong.” (Exodus 23:2) Sin creeps into our lives and the lives of our grandchildren so subtly and quickly. Sometimes before we know it, we are watching an immoral, degenerate TV show or movie that does not honor God. Our culture is...
