Loving the Little Years [Kindle Edition] Author: Rachel Jankovic | Language: English | ISBN:
B004DNWEYK | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download books file now Download Loving the Little Years [Kindle Edition] for everyone book with Mediafire Link Download Link I didn’t write this book because mothering little ones is easy for me. I wrote it because it isn’t. I know that this is a hard job, because I am right here in the middle of it. I know you need encouragement because I do too.
This is not a tender reminiscence from someone who had children so long ago that she only remembers the sweet parts. At the time of writing this, I have three children in diapers, and I can recognize the sound of hundreds of toothpicks being dumped out in the hall.
This is a small collection of thoughts on mothering young children—for when you are motivated, for when you are discouraged, for the times when discipline seems fruitless, and for when you are just plain old tired.
The opportunities for growth abound here—but you have to be willing. You have to open your heart to the tumble. As you deal with your children, deal with yourself always and first. This is what it looks like, and feels like, to walk as a mother with God. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Download Loving the Little Years [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 103 KB
- Print Length: 108 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1591280818
- Publisher: Canon Press; 1st edition (November 23, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004DNWEYK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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As I write this I my three little monkeys are noisily attempting to go to sleep in the other room. The fourth little monkey may only be the size of a raspberry, but from a cozy position in my womb he or she is making his or her presence felt (headache, queasiness, fatigue...). I have 60 nails on 60 fingers and toes to keep trimmed, not counting my own! There are toys in the Tupperware cupboard and Tupperware in the toy box. And yes, I probably could recite Green Eggs and Ham. I know what motherhood in the trenches looks like.
Loving the Little Years is not a book to make you feel good about how long it's been since you cleaned your bathroom. This book won't tell you to hire a babysitter so you can have a day off with your girlfriends and keep in touch with the real you. This book doesn't say that the answer to all your stress is to spend two hours with the Lord at four in the morning. There are no suggested schedules, no spanking formulas, no pity parties. This book is real.
With wisdom and humor, and in 20 short, punchy chapters, Rachel Jankovic reminds us mothers that we are sinners too. Sometimes when the attitudes are bad and everyone is crying the first person who needs to repent is Mommy. As mothers we pour everything we've got into "training them up in the way they should go" but we have to remember that our own journey to sanctification isn't over. God is using these mischievous little imps to make us more like Him.
When all they seem to do is make messes and all that seems to come out of their mouths is mostly unintelligible gibberish, we can tend to see our children as little bothers. But throughout this book Rachel encourages us to remember that they are little people, eternal souls, personalities in the making.
I am the mother of six children ages 10 and under, with #7 in June. So, I can identify with the author, also a mother of lots of young children, though hers are even younger than mine. I had seen this book so broadly recommended by those who homeschool or have lots of little ones that I was very eager to read it. In the end, I was rather underwhelmed.
The book itself is very short, just over 100 pages. The chapters are also extremely short, ranging from 2-8 pages, with the norm being about 4-5. I guess you could say that makes it easy for a mom in the trenches to read, but I felt that it made the book choppy with pithy little life lessons, that weren't fleshed out that well. Often, the author ended up making a case that parents should take x approach with their children, but didn't take the pages to really make a solid case for why or give more than 1 brief example. I've never been a fan of the devotional-type book where you read a 1-page lesson every day, and that's really what this felt like. There was little connection between any of the chapters.
I also didn't agree with some of those lessons. Like when she basically says that she doesn't criticize her kids for being fussy, because they are being told they have already failed if they feel the feeling. Well, that's exactly what points our children to needing Jesus. It doesn't matter how perfectly our actions are controlled; our hearts are still sinful. Jesus himself said that it was sin to lust in our heart or be angry in our heart or whatever. There was also another chapter where she basically talked about being fruitful as if it were fulfilled in doing things like knitting dishcloths, and even if they end up not being used, that's not our responsibility, we've been busy producing things.
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