Posts by Alice Heinzen
Does Your Family Impact the Culture or Not?
How can your family have a positive impact on culture? Is it up to the schools to form your children into good citizens and faithful disciples of Christ? Or do parents need to take more responsibility for the education and formation of their children? Let’s reflect on the most powerful way to impact the culture by impacting your family.
Read MoreHow do You Fill a Home with Goodness and Virtue?
Parents want to ensure that their children embrace goodness in life. That can be difficult in a cutlure of bullying, increased school violence, soaring depression, and isolation. What can parents do to help their children embrace goodness?
Read MoreLoving Children Requires Self-Control
The world today often portrays love as just another emotion. It should come to no one’s surprise that many people—even many parents— think that love is nothing more than following your heart or indulging in what makes you feel good. While it is true that a part of love includes feelings, the better portion of…
Read MoreDo you really listen to your family members?
God calls families to buld a true community of persons. One important way to do that is to learn to reallly listen to each other. How well do you listen? How can you listen more intently? This month’s article will explore these questions.
Read MoreIs Your Family Important to You?
Raising a family in the way of love requires conscious effort on behalf of parents. Parents show how important their family is to them by the amount of energy and attention they put into their family’s development. This month’s reflection question asks parents to reflect on how their actions reflect the importance of their family to them.
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