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10 ideas to kill pride:
1. Work at listening
2. Practice gratitude
3. Learn from criticism/counsel
4. Cultivate enjoyment of life
5. Embrace weakness
6. Laugh at yourself
7. Visit a cemetery
8. Study the universe
9. Mediate on heavenly worship
10. Bathe everything else in humility

Habits of play
1. Create an appetite for the imagination & good stories - read to them or have them read
2. Play with them - make regular windows to do this, we can’t do it all the time & we don’t need to feel guilty about that
3. Send them out to play - helps grow their imagination, ability to break out of boredom and make their own hobbies

Family rest - what do we want that to look like?

Family devotions:
God loves messy things.
Start simple, focus on consistency.
Catechisms are helpful to build a foundation but we love the idea of reading out of the Bible & explaining God’s Word at an age appropriate level with our children as they grow up.
Short prayers - thank & ask - we’ve started to do at bedtime every night.

Screen time:
-its harder to use something responsibly than to stay away from it
-set regular times that children (and yourself) can expect to have screen time (Friday family movie night, after you read x amount on a long car ride)
- someone/something will be forming our kids, we want it to be us
-curate what we watch (make a list & rewatch good stories!)
-use moments to pause a movie & teach

Mealtimes:
-have something to transition into the evening meal (light a candle)
-be intentional in conversation at the dinner table (highs/lows, ask a question)
-eat meals together regularly
-invite people into the mess

Discipline:
-have a plan to stay consistent a public setting
“And discipline…is not a tool for controlling behavior but rather a process of discipling a child’s heart toward the right loves.”

Morning: Open your eyes to reality
1. Start with prayer
2. Word before phone
3. Gather before going

Loving this read while taking it slow & absorbing such beautiful lives. Finished part 1 on Ann Judson last week and thought no way am I going to admire Sarah Judson more… but a couple chapters in, and I was wrong.