I SHARED THIS FUN LESSON today with someone about fun memories of God-given effective and entertaining child-rearing…

When my children were little and being naughty, and using an ugly voice — this is what I did:

I’d say to him or her: “Take that ugly voice out of your mouth right now.”

They would.

Then I would tell them: “Now, throw it on the floor and stomp on it.”

They did.

And now the funnest part!

I’d say: “Now, take out your pretty voice (or handsome voice) out of your pocket and put it in.”

I AM TELLING YOU —- the results were fabulous AND it was terrifically funny!

He (or she) would reach into his pocket and ‘pull out his voice’ and carefully put it into his mouth. That was cute enough but then – the voice, the demeanor, the bad attitude was gone!

My little one would go instantly from sassy and crabby to – BEAUTIFUL!! He or she now spoke with a little voice as sweet as an angel —- with the same precious attitude! Seriously!

AND: it worked every time!!!

LET’S HEAR IT FOR MOMS AND THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS!
WITH ALL THE THANKSGIVING GOING TO GOD, THEIR FATHER, OF COURSE for giving moms their precious cargo AND directions on how to raise them up, plus, giving us great and fun ideas!

Psalm 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being;  you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Proverbs 31:27-29
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”