Author: Joey & Carla Link

Joey and Carla Link December 4, 2024 When I was growing up, one of the favorite movie musicals my mom and my sisters and I liked to watch was “Fiddler on the Roof”. Written in 1905, it is about Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters. Tevye tries to explain the customs in their…

We’re all about to sit around the table with family and friends as the Thanksgiving season is upon us. It is good to sit around a wonderful meal and share what we are thankful for. Most of us are thankful for the presence of those in our lives who we love and who love us…

Joey and Carla Link November 13, 2024 In today’s culture, “It’s all about me” is truly the mantra of most you meet. You can’t turn on the TV without hearing commercials touting or celebrities talking about self-care. Now we are in total agreement that you need to take care of yourself. When our bodies are…

Joey and Carla Link November 6, 2024 Peer pressure. Is your first thought negative? Ours usually is. There is such a thing as positive peer pressure. Warning signs your kids (10 yrs and up) are being drawn into negative peer pressure. Information in this blog was taken from the Mom’s Notes presentations “Understanding Peer Pressure, Part 1”, “Understanding Peer Pressure,…

Joey and Carla Link October 30, 2024 We no longer live in a world we can trust. Oh, how we wish that were different, but it’s not. The best way to keep a protective arm around your kids with society’s morals is to keep your family united and strong. However, as kids grow, they are…

Joey and Carla Link October 23, 2024 “Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘encourage’ as “to inspire with courage, to hearten, cheer on or up.”  When our children felt that there was nothing they could do right (don’t…

Joey and Carla Link October 16, 2024 When our kids did their chores, as their parent, it was easy for us to grade their effort in our mind. We would ask them to give themselves a grade when they were finished, and most of the time they agreed with what we mentally gave them. Do…

Joey and Carla Link October 9, 2024 Facts, feeling and assumptions. Those with the Melancholy as their primary temperament get these confused all the time. Facts and feelings seem pretty straightforward, but let’s define them anyway.  A “fact” is something that is “proven to be true”. When you say to your child, “You left your…

Joey and Carla Link October 2, 2024 There isn’t much that makes a parent as upset with their kids than when they catch them lying about something. Lying means you are trying to cover something up, usually to stay out of trouble. Believe it or not, there are some kids who are prone to lying…

Joey and Carla Link September 25, 2024 One of your kids (hopefully only one!) won’t get it together and keep it together. Every time you instruct him/her to do something, you have a fight on your hands. You are constantly correcting him/her throughout the day, every day with no end in sight.  In Ephesians 6:1,…