To Do or Not To Do: Traveling with Children

I meet many families traveling with small children on planes, trains and buses. For many of them, it is a nightmare to travel with their small children. Often, the child is jumping or climbing over the railing or screaming. The parents are embarrassed that their child is not sitting still, so they tell him to … Continue reading →

Focused Parenting: 12-18 Years

by Karol Svoboda As we go down this road of focused parenting together, we have had different emphasis on different stages. The first stage (birth to five years) has a primary focus of building discipline and self-control on a foundation of love, security, and trust. The second stage (six to twelve years) is focused on … Continue reading →

Focused Parenting: Six to Twelve Years

by Karol Svoboda This is the time to fine tune the values we want to develop in our child. This is the most impressionable age to teach, model and impart values into our child. In their first six years of life many of those values came through different forms of discipline and external controls. The … Continue reading →

Focused Parenting: Birth to Five Years

by Karol Svoboda There is a story in the Bible of the wise and foolish builders. When the rains came and the winds blew and began to beat against the house, it was the house built upon a strong foundation that stood. The house built upon the sand fell with a big crash. It is … Continue reading →

Focused Parenting: Moulding a Child

by Karol Svoboda A baby enters our lives with our hearts full of expectation, hopes, dreams, fears, uncertainties and many unknowns. We are given a wonderful gift yet a great responsibility when a baby comes. A baby comes into a home of imperfect people with sometimes little or no training in how best to raise … Continue reading →

The Eyes of a Child: Consequences

I don’t remember the spankings I had when I was small or what caused them, but I will write what I remember. My mum gave me consequences like no video games, or no TV because I didn’t do my chores. I remember when I had to practice typing everyday for fifteen minutes. I did not … Continue reading →

The Eyes of a Child

Testimony from a child, Abhishek Martins I think of all the people who have influenced my life. And only two people really stand out to me. My father and my mother. My parents have been a part of my life from the day I was born. They have always stood by me and guided me in the … Continue reading →