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VALUE OF QUALITY TIME WITH CHILDREN by Guest Amy Wiener

7/25/2019

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A precious friend of mine, Amy Wiener, shares such love and joy when she talks about relating to children. So much of our own significance is patterned into adult thinking and relating to others from our childhood, is it not? Amy's amazing sweetness and wisdom with children is too awesome not to consider, so I asked her to write something for my website. May you be an inspired blessing to children from this day forward. 

This guest post from Amy Wiener:


Value of quality time with children . . . .
 
As we all know, time goes way too fast! Every year seems faster and faster. Getting kids ready for school, running to after school activities, homework, dinner, play and off to bed . . . where do we fit in just being with children before they are adults? How do we value our time with children in our lives and raise them to feel valued in our society?
 
Even though I don’t have my own children, I’m a teacher who works with children all day. Kids are precious! In the early childhood years, most likely they don’t remember what they’ve learned. They remember if they liked their teacher or not, or had fun with their friends. If you like children, chances are you will naturally have quality time with them.

It’s important to listen, celebrate, and be sad with them in their adventures of growing up.

It’s important to listen, celebrate, and be sad with them in their adventures of growing up. Children are impressionable. They’re like sponges soaking everything in. There are many ways that can influence them such as; friends, T.V., movies, social media, sports, music, books, food, teachers/coaches, and hopefully family and Jesus! Spending time and being involved with them throughout their whole childhood will help them feel loved and connected to people. As a Christian, I feel it’s important to instill Biblical, everlasting truths in them. God is always with us and is faithful.
 
Whether you are a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, or a good neighbor, quality time with children might include: read the Bible and pray, go to church/Sunday School, attend activities they are involved in or ask them about it if you can’t make it, eat dinner at the dinner table with everyone-if possible, limit social media or use it as a reward, play with them, say, “I love you,” hug, exercise politeness, communicate about problems and forgive if needed, take pictures, and laugh! Just taking time and being with children is valuable because they will never forget it!
 
 
Amy Wiener
Children’s Author and Teacher
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Rebecca McLafferty link
8/2/2019 11:33:54 am

I really appreciate this post from Amy Wiener, and I thank you, Susan Marlene, for sharing it on your website. It's amazing how differently I view children and grandchildren now that I'm a little older. (cough, cough)

Grandchildren are so precious and time so fleeting. It is important to reassure our children that they are on the right path with their own children. I am blessed that they are always open to suggestion, and vice versa. Keeping God in the midst of all family decisions and behavior is a challenge that is critical to living in God's will. And--it makes us feel wonderful when we realize we are doing the right thing. Those reminders make both children and grandchildren smile.

Thanks again for this post. I appreciate it!

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Susan Marlene link
8/2/2019 08:16:11 pm

Thank you Rebecca! I couldn't have said that any better! I also enjoy making wonderful memories with our grandchildren. That is over and above the pleasure that meringue on top of the pie offers to me! A Christ-like connection is the best-ever!

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    Susan Marlene is the author of Sisters & Friends, HEARTS FOREVER FAITHFUL and SHORT STORIES, Some Fanciful, Some True, A Collection from Various Time Periods & Adventurous Tales, as well as ​Splashes of Hope, A Trio of Short Stories.

    She has published in these venues also. 

    www.ChristianDevotions.us and in Splickety Love Magazine, The Novice, and  newspapers. She writes devotions, fiction, and nonfiction. She is a member and co-founder of Pens of Praise Christian Writers 
    Group.  She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW).

    ​She speaks at writers' groups and prepares devotions and teachings often for Pens of Praise Christian Writers,  and was a former member of Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and Alternative Education Teacher’s Aide. She loves  antiques and misses  her Leonberger, but loves her Boxer who fills their lives with love and laughter. Her cat was the queen of the household and is also dearly missed. 

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