Cheerful, Authoritative, Consistent

In the Jan./Feb. 2010 issue of No Greater Joy, Michael Pearl sums up their family's child rearing wisdom in an article that shares its title with that of this post.  He emphasizes cheerfulness as being by far the most important of the three--something I have been very convicted about myself as of late.

"Training up a child in the way he should go is a 20 year graduate course in life.  It produces more humility than it does experts.  But know that cheerfulness will cover a multitude of deficiencies. . . . Training without joy is tyranny."


~Michael Pearl

Here's the link to the full article:

http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/articles/general-view/archive/2009/december/03/cheerful-authoritative-consistent/

The Fam

In order to avoid burdening my busy photographer friend in the middle of December, we made a quick stop in the big city to get an updated family photo on our way to exchange tile for the kitchen.  (I'm not talking about how many times we've changed our minds on the flooring issue recently.)  Grammy and Grandad's Christmas outfit gifts made deciding on the wardrobe pretty simple, and I'm thankful for that.

Though this pic is not nearly as creative as Ruthanne's work, I do like it because you can see everyone's personalities pretty well.  Really I'm just glad we were able to get all eight of us looking in the same direction with a halfway pleasant expression.  We also did individual shots of a couple of birthday people while we were at it, but I'm determined to get caught up on summer birthday picture posts before moving on to winter.   

Merry Christmas!

Foodie Link for Vitamins and Minerals

I have a cute video of a couple budding musicians in our household if blogger ever decides to enable me to post videos again.  Until then, I wanted to note this helpful resource for figuring out  which foods to focus on if trying to increase certain nutrients in your diet.  It's nice to have things listed so clearly and concisely.


http://nourishedkitchen.com/best-sources-vitamins-minerals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nourishedkitchen+%28The+Nourished+Kitchen%29