christian parenting
How to start your christian parenting journey: Unborn Child || Christian Parenting
September 28, 2019
Hello dearest Christian parents
It really is an amazing thing to be a parent.
I can tell because i'm one and for those of us that are planning to have kids or about to you will definitely get to find out how amazing it is.
We are going to be starting a series on Christian parenting and when we talk about Christian parenting let us never forget preparing for it! Just like every good thing needs preparation, a parent has to be prepared even before a child is born to parent their children the Christian way. T
This will make you intentional about what you do because you are prepared for the journey ahead.
So the question is how do we start Christian parenting for an unborn child
1. Being knowledgeable about your faith: You can’t be a Christian parent if you are totally clueless about being a Christian the preparation has to start with you, your child will be learning from the beginning so you have to be very well informed about your faith
2. Be passionate about your faith: The only way to teach your faith to your children
is to tell them genuinely what it means to you!
3. Be intentional: This is you being determined to ensure that your Christian
parenting doesn’t get washed away by time and season.
4. Let God and love guide you!
Parenting for an unborn child is the preparation and intentionality of taking the step
of being a Christian parent!
I will leave you with this bible passage proverbs 22:6;
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Happy Christian parenting!
Written by
Abimbola Johnson Adetokun. She studied computer science at Lagos state university, a Mum of two, worked as a secretary and a programmer and is currently running an online blog crossblogger while being a stay at home mum.
It really is an amazing thing to be a parent.
I can tell because i'm one and for those of us that are planning to have kids or about to you will definitely get to find out how amazing it is.
We are going to be starting a series on Christian parenting and when we talk about Christian parenting let us never forget preparing for it! Just like every good thing needs preparation, a parent has to be prepared even before a child is born to parent their children the Christian way. T
This will make you intentional about what you do because you are prepared for the journey ahead.
So the question is how do we start Christian parenting for an unborn child
1. Being knowledgeable about your faith: You can’t be a Christian parent if you are totally clueless about being a Christian the preparation has to start with you, your child will be learning from the beginning so you have to be very well informed about your faith
2. Be passionate about your faith: The only way to teach your faith to your children
is to tell them genuinely what it means to you!
3. Be intentional: This is you being determined to ensure that your Christian
parenting doesn’t get washed away by time and season.
4. Let God and love guide you!
Parenting for an unborn child is the preparation and intentionality of taking the step
of being a Christian parent!
I will leave you with this bible passage proverbs 22:6;
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Happy Christian parenting!
Written by
Abimbola Johnson Adetokun. She studied computer science at Lagos state university, a Mum of two, worked as a secretary and a programmer and is currently running an online blog crossblogger while being a stay at home mum.
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Fine Motor: Play dough and straws
Gross Motor: Play Ground, floor colouring with chalk
Cooking: Cookies
Books to read: Rainbow fish, book about ocean
Trip: Landmark Beach
Music:
Bible: Jesus walked on water
What we did:
Coloured Shells:
Materials
Ocean themed sensory bottle:
Materials
Oil and water don't mix and you'd be introducing your toddler to that scientific fact. No matter how they shake, it will still separate.
No mess ocean themed sensory bag < 1 year:
Materials
Week 11 - Ocean & Beaches || 52 Weeks Of Theme-Based Toddler Homeschooling Activities
September 25, 2019
Hello People!
Welcome back to our 52 weeks theme-based toddler homeschooling series! This week we are going to talk about the Ocean & Beach theme.
What I was hoping to introduce to my toddler with this theme was the beach, how we can take care of the environment (beach cleaning) and further talk about sea animals as he is more interested in those, anyways, the rain didn't help us at all this week as we had to stay indoors and had to cancel our beach visit.
We had 2 visitors this week, miss 3years old & 18 months old mr. We had some fun, see what we were able to do.
Our Plan:
Numeracy: Counting and sorting shells by colour
Science: Ocean Themed Sensory Bottle
Crafts: Paint Shells, Colour beach pictureFine Motor: Play dough and straws
Gross Motor: Play Ground, floor colouring with chalk
Cooking: Cookies
Books to read: Rainbow fish, book about ocean
Trip: Landmark Beach
Music:
Bible: Jesus walked on water
What we did:
Coloured Shells:
Materials
- Shells
- Paint
- Paint Brush
Counting and Miss3 made a rainbow! |
Materials
- Empty Bottle
- Water
- Blue food colouring
- Oil
- Cellotape
Direction
- Add water in the bottle
- Add a drop of blue food colouring
- Add Oil(I just eyeballed it) and seal
Oil and water don't mix and you'd be introducing your toddler to that scientific fact. No matter how they shake, it will still separate.
No mess ocean themed sensory bag < 1 year:
Materials
- Ziplock bag
- I cup of water
- Blue food colouring
- Ocean based loose parts (e.g shells, fish)
- Cellotape
- Water beads (optional)
Direction
- Add water to the ziplock
- Add a drop of blue food colouring
- Add loose parts and water beads
- Seal to the ground
We played with play dough we got from Miniso a while ago. The last time I used it, it became solid after a day out but I left it out this time after and one week later, it's still soft.
We did a mid week activity that I saw on this website
We talked about Big and Small.
Materials
- Cardboard
- Pen
- Enthusiastic Toddler
Trace out your palms, feet and have fun. Another layer is colouring it, cutting it out and comparing.
Colouring
I just googled "Ocean themed colouring pages", printed it and gave them to colour.
We were supposed to end the week with a visit to the beach but the rain stopped us. I really hope you enjoyed and learnt a thing or 2 from this. You can follow our journey as we go along on Instagram stories @thecuddleblog
What did you do in your homeschool this week?
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Week 10 - Animal Habitats || 52 Weeks Of Theme-Based Toddler Homeschooling Activities
September 18, 2019
Hello There!!!
We are back!!! We had a summer break because, mummy needs to rest too and we are back! How was your summer holiday? We made a slight change to the 52 weeks theme-based toddler homeschooling activities for the rest of the year.
Here is our updated list but our Sections is the same. So, let's go to the theme for the week!
We are back!!! We had a summer break because, mummy needs to rest too and we are back! How was your summer holiday? We made a slight change to the 52 weeks theme-based toddler homeschooling activities for the rest of the year.
Here is our updated list but our Sections is the same. So, let's go to the theme for the week!
Animal Habitats!!! I did something different, I segmented my activities based on the days we 'work' Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
So, what was our plan?
Numeracy: How many animals can you count?
Science: Sorting
Craft: Paper plate animals, Craft sticks animals, Scissors skills - cut animals
Fine Motor: Coloured rice sensory bin, pouring and dumping, animal hunting
Gross Motor: Horse back ride, act like an animal
Cooking: Animal face pancake, cookies
Books: Zoo Book, Pout pout fish
Trip: Farm, Aquarium
Music:
Bible: Noah, Jonah, David
Circle time - Down in the jungle, under the sea, old mcdonald had a farm, fishes in the sea.
This is how I now segmented it. Different Habitats for each day |
We celebrated our first day back with pictures!
Monday: We focused on Farm Animals
- Counting the farm animals
- Paper plate animals - Chicken - Paper plate, feathers, googly eyes, glue, scissors
- Zoo Book
- Sensory Bin - Farm themed: Used Beans, Semovita and Oats as base, plastic animals from @thecuddleplayhouse
- Act like an animal
- Horse back ride - Mummy/Daddy on 4 knees and child rides ;)
- Cookies - We used @machifoods bambara flour, oats, sesame seeds butter, coconut milk and sugar. Let the children mix and pat it down.
Sensory bin |
Clean Up |
Clean up |
Made facts cards on each animal |
Wednesday: We focused on Jungle
- Counting and talking about jungle animals
- Craft sticks animals - Craft sticks from @thecuddleplayhouse
- Noah's story
- Sensory bin - Jungle themed: Sand & beans as base, plastic animals from @thecuddleplayhouse
- Play dough - I got the play dough from Miniso
- Snake craft - Scissors, paper plate, paint, paint brush, goggly eyes, glue
Friday: We focused on the Sea
- Counting/talking about sea animals
- Water Play
- Colour sea animals - No mess Colouring - Ziplock bag, paint, print out of sea animals
- Jonah - Story of Jonah
- Sensory bin - Sea Themed - Blue food colour, Plastic animals, Water beads, cups, funnel
- Sorting
Water beads |
No mess painting |
Bible |
Counting water beads |
Painting |
Matching animals with the printout |
Reality is the mess! |
The experience is well worth it! I hope you learnt a thing or 2 today!
Please let me know what you learnt in your homeschool this week.
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