What My Toddler is Teaching Me: Patience
It has now been over a year since I last posted here - the biggest change? My little baby is now a toddler. So lately I have been very much immersed in the great yet rewarding challenge that is parenting a toddler. One great blessing of this process is that I find that more often than not, I am also parenting myself. I have had a lot of conversations about this with another friend who has a toddler and we agreed that what and how we teach our kids is so revealing about ourselves. We teach them to be patient, to speak kindly, not to get angry when things don't go their way. And yet all the while, we realise that we ourselves struggle with these things - sometimes on a much bigger scale! This is one of the joys of Christian parenting. While we have the incredible honour and responsibility of bringing up our children in God's ways and we hold a unique authority over them for that purpose, we also are God's children, and we are being sanctified alongside them and dealing with...