As parents in this “modern age” of history, we have to be able to sift through the STUFF that doesn’t matter and focus on what does. Life, even for our little ones, has become much busier. There are multiple reasons for this, but I don’t want to focus on them. I want to focus on what matters.

The business can entrap you before you even realize it. As you build your family and start to plan life events, it may be wise to set boundaries and to discuss what REALLY MATTERS.

How do we want to spend time in the evenings or on the weekends? How many sports do we want to allow our kids to participate in each season or each year? What activities do we want to expose our kids to outside of sports…music and art? What special places or trips do we want to experience together this year? Will we build in reading time and prayer time before bed each evening? How are we going to teach them about faith? Will church and worship be a priority? Will we pray together as a family? How will we restrict cell phone use this year- at meal time and after bedtime? All of these questions lead to this one: WHAT MATTERS TO US AS A FAMILY?

This may sound completely unneccesary, but if we don’t set intentional boundaries, the schedule can rule us rather than the other way around. It just happens. And then what happens is that we don’t have time for some of the things that really matter.

Decide as a family what matters to you as we begin this school year. Weed out the things that don’t, no matter what the general population or current culture dictates. Figure out a way to intentionally fill those precious, formative minds with values of faith and family. Use books that promote those values and restrict use of social media sites that don’t. It’s OKAY, Mom and Dad, to determine what really matters to your family unit and create a gameplan to help you get there.

We create gameplans for lots of trival things, right? Let’s PLAN to teach our kids about what really matters too.

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