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I just found this site and am excited about it. I am looking for a way to subscribe and needing help! My top choice is to have it sent to me via email, but I don’t see that option. Otherwise I usually add blogs to my favorites bar at the top of my screen, but I am not seeing that option either. Basically when I click on the subscribe blog button I am getting different stuff than I have ever dealt with. Do you have any recommendations?
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The option to subscribe by email is up on the MODsquad blog! You can see it on the right side bar! You can be the first! Thanks for the suggestion!
Would love to see more posts about teenage daughters. Love this site – just feel a little lost since my daughter is a teenager already – just makes me blue and with I had done things different.
hi melanie! how old is your daughter? mine is 15 and while there are many things i wish i would’ve done differently … i’ve now realized it and am going from here. God allows us that grace, and i’ve been honest with taylor and have told her the same {that i wish i’d done some things differently and plan to now} and that i need her grace too.
lots of prayer!! prayer, prayer, prayer! and honesty, and humility, and prayer!
some resources :: boundaries with teens; power of a praying parent; running the rapids. lifeway also makes a great magazine called “living with teenagers” {love ALL the lifeway mags!}.
i hope this is helpful. please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions, to vent, to share, to pray …
we’ll try to do some more teenage posts … i think we have a widespread need! stay strong and remember … God is for you!
Hi sweet friends. I received my #mobsociety tshirt and have my necklace on order. Now you know how girls are. If big sister sees these then she is going to ask where hers are …for mommy to wear…so do you have plans for tshirts and necklaces. I will be first in line to order. I love the ones for my boy!!! Have a blessed day and I pray you had a wonderful holiday weekend!
You tell her we are on it!!!!
I’d like to know how did you learn to conversate with your daughters? Now that my oldest will be 7 years old, I feel like my conversations need to be different. Strange as it sounds, I feel lost. I never realized how chatty we females can be and sometimes I’m really not in the mood to talk. But, I want to grow in this due to my love for Jesus and my girls. Any suggestions, bible verses, etc. as to how/what the Lord did in you to help build your relationship with your daughter?
I came over to post the same type of question as ZHodges above. My daughter is 9 yr old and I’m realizing I need to have more one/one time with her. Is there a study or something that would help us as she is entering this next phase? I feel like I may be a little early for some topics but still want to have some good conversations that help her know and love the Lord. I’ve noticed her changing a little as far as attitudes, resistance….just more emotional. I have four girls and she is the oldest. I don’t feel equipped to navigate the waters ahead! Any suggestions or help would be so appreciated. Thank you
I’am having a hard time understanding my 22 year old meltdowns.I’am finding comfort in praying.thank you for the website.
We are so glad you are encouraged Evelyn! May God give you wisdom and all the grace you need to love her through it! Tracie leads a great book club discussion 2 Thursdays each month. She is working through a book called “Riding The Rapids”. Next post is this Thursday. I think it would encourage you!
Look forward to it.thank you
I am new to your website but let me say..I love it. Thank you for your insight and compassion. Raising daughters in this day is tough. I truly feel we need to be a bigger influence on them than the world. It is crucial to equip them with God’s truth so they are prepared and firm in the foundations of Christ. So with that said here is my question. I have two daughters. My 11 year old has special needs. Suffered a brain injury at 18 months. My other daughter is 6. I really want to do a study with my 6 year old but don’t want to jump the gun. I have been looking at P31 Princess Study. Have you done this or is there another you would recommend for 6-8 year old’s? Again I truly enjoy your website and have referred all my girlfriend raising daughters to it. Placed a button on my blog too!!
blessings,
Tricia in KY
Tricia it is so nice to meet you! What a blessing to have you here at MODsquad Blog. I have not heard of the P31 studies, but one I have heard is great for that age is “Mom and Me Having Tea”. For 9-12 years I love “Secret Keeper Girl”.
We look forward to getting to know you better! Thanks for the blog love and sharing us with your friends. We are honored!
LOVE this place. I can come here and have my cup filled. Question…… Looking at the prayers for the year. Did I miss something? April, May June are blank…
Thank you!!!
Hello, all!
My daughter is 18 and will be leaving for college in the fall. Around 8th/9th grade, she started falling away from her faith and began making choices that are far less than God’s best for her. She has grown increasingly disrespectful and angry toward her dad and I. We have tried Christian counseling, heart-to-heart talks, tried to appeal to her on a lot of different levels. She seems angriest toward me, angry mostly for my opinions and views on life, faith, and her choices. She doesn’t want to talk and treats me like everything I stand for is a joke. I don’t know how to rebuild our relationship. I feel like a failure as a mom. I read great blogs about new moms and how they’re raising up their kids to follow hard after Christ and I think I really did do my best to point her to Christ but everything just seemed to come crashing down. Where do I go from here?
My heart breaks for you.
I’m involved with both categories you mentioned and want to encourage you to give yourself a break.
You mentioned looking at blogs of those raising small children in the Lord. As the mother of small children, I would say at this point it is EASIEST to raise them in the Lord because children take what we say at face value. That is why we have to watch what we say so carefully around children. We are planting seeds in their faith that we hope will remain strong throughout their life.
However, all parents have to admit that as their children grow and we lose control – because they are driving, out with friends, capable of creating mischief beyond refusing to listen at the dinner table or clean up the toy room
, etc – it is our job to keep engaging in conversation and teach the truth in love, but NOT to take on their stuff.
The truth is that all of our children have to make their own choices about their faith and moral decisions. I know from my my writing and counseling ministry that serves primarily teens and adults, that sometimes good kids will make bad choices. Sometimes teens for one reason or another will get a hard heart. Either way, parents will often take this on as a reflection of themselves or their job but that ISN’T necessarily the case. We are each held responsible for our own stuff: parents to speak the truth in love. Children for the choices the make.
If you have planted the seeds of faith in love and continued to speak Truth when the door was open, you have DONE your job and WELL. Now she needs to choose for herself what she will do. I will pray for her and would encourage you to seek new Christian counseling if she is open to that, but, sadly, some need to hit “rock bottom” before realizing their need for God and why His Word and “rules” protect.
The great thing is that regardless of her choices now, she is NEVER outside of the realm of grace. We ALL mess up. Sometimes big. Sometimes little. But, God is always ready for us when we return to Him. And, NOTHING takes God by surprise. He knows your need and is there for you.
On a side note, if she is still living in your house it is still important that she respects your rules. So, make sure that you sit down with her and explain that you love her and are praying for her walk with God, but regardless she needs to honor the boundaries you have placed in your home. Then, explain what those are and the consequences for breaking them and stick to that. Just because she makes her own personal choices and God holds her accountable for them doesn’t mean that she gets to run the show in your home.
I am sending you a virtual hug. Imagine yourself getting one from all the ModSquad moms. I hope this helps!
Thank you, Melissa. Good words of wisdom. I am holding on to that and to the Truth. Thanks for your prayers. It means more than you’ll know.
Hi, I had a question hoping to get tons of responses!
We have a soon to be 7 year old daughter. She is bright, fun, sweet and loving. She gave her life to Jesus this summer, YEAH! We live on a street with, um, how do you say it…snobs?? Everyone is more concerned with having bigger and better. It drives me crazy. We have limited our daughter’s play with the neighborhood kids, realizing that she is lonley and desiring to make friends. The families on our street watch TV programs that might be fine for the secular world but we have chosen to not allow her to watch. The young girls go batty over a young singer that has made a mark on young girls, which my daughter does not listen too. I want to be the salt and light on our street and our daughter loves Jesus and so we decided that we would allow her to play with the kids (there is only 5 of them on the street) and monitor how things go. So my question is, how do you make sure that their influence doesn’t trump hers. We have another daughter with special needs so we are handling that too, but have never had to deal with all of this friendship stuff until now. Don’t get me wrong…they are not bad kids, just wordly. I don’t want to isolate our daughter but I don’t want certain influences to happen either. Our daughter likes to make others laugh, and I don’t want her to follow the crowd just to have friends. Thanks for any tips and ideas.
I am looking for what bible recommendations you have for my daughter. I want her to love the Word like I do and there are a lot of choices when it comes to bibles. Do you ladies have any thoughts? What do you have and love for your daughters?
Hi….I am not a mother (yet), but I am a 21 year old daughter of an amazing woman. From a daughters stand point, I had the girly Bibles, and would get one every couple years when I would hit a new stage. However, I didn’t become a lover of the Word until late in my teen years. Even though I had a Bible and technically no excuse, I never read my Bible because I never saw my mom reading hers unless it was to look up a Bible verse to make a point. I say this to encourage you as a mom, if your daughter/children seeing you read your Bible it will provoke them to want to read theirs, what style or color is secondary.
I hope this helps some. Bless you!
Hello..I have been struggling with the negative images and forces of television. My daughter is 12, and even when we are watching family shows..the commercials are intrusive with violence, sexuality and evil undertones (especially now that Halloween is near). So I am reaching out to you to ask how do you keep these influences out of your home? I have been considering just eliminating cable..but if it primetime network tv that has some of the most offensive commericals. We try to quickly change the channel when these commericals begin..but sometimes the message is still seen. I so wish Christians could come together and get some type of monitoring/blocking system for our homes. We are very selective in our choices..but it is the commericals that are invading our home…any suggestions? Thank you so much!!
One thing we do is to mute all commercials no matter what the “family friendly” programming is. Also, our family did get rid of cable. We have Netflix, and watch cartoons and some approved movies that do not have commercials. If our girls watch TV ‘live’ it is PBS or Qubo. Or, if we are watching as a family, I monitor what is coming on. Turning the sound down does help some!
It is a constant battle for the family!
What is the current bookclub selection?
Merry Christmas
We will be reviewing some books in the new year, but do not have a book club selection at this time. Thanks!
Been a subscriber for a long time but I can’t see the link- help me
I emailed you Sheila!
I am a day late in getting the ebook….I do not have a kindle or nook but would like to download the ebook (31 days of prayer) where/how can I purchase it?
Thanks!
Can any of you recommend a morning time devotional for my daughter who is 7 (will be 8 in Sept) I am wanting to start a morning devotional and have been looking at them but they are either too young or have topics too old. Thanks so much and I love your site!! Big fan!
I like the “God and Me” devotions series. You can get them at Amazon or most Christian bookstores.
Hi! I just found your blog and wanted to subscribe by email, but it doesn’t seem to be working? I click on the subscribe button and then choose email, but it isn’t letting me type my email address in. Thanks for your help!!
Heidi
We’ll check on that!
Hi there. Where on your site can I find posts or comments about our girls dealing with meangirls at school and/or when their good friend turns on them. Do you know what I mean? I work part time at my daughters school and she just came in to visit at lunch with the saddest look on her face. She said that *friend* is not talking to her today and not sitting with her at lunch. It breaks my heart. It’s hard to see it all first hand.
Jen, we just faced this last week! I think the most important thing to remember is to teach our girls perspective in all things. YES, this hurts. But this is a part of life, learning to deal with difficult people and situations. Conflicts are going to happen and we gift our girls when we teach them to see beyond the conflict to the heart of the person involved.
Last week, I reminded my 12-year-old how important it is to give people space when they need it and to remember that we never know everything someone else is dealing with. Sometimes, our girls (and we ourselves!) get caught in the fray of a situation that has nothing to do with us. Reminding your daughter to pray for her friends – even when they are not acting like a friend – is so important. Also, I would say this, as a momma, you have to allow her to manage these sorts of situations … give guidance and counsel, pray with her, and share biblical truth, but ultimately, you want her to learn to navigate the tricky waters of friendships well.
In my daughter’s life, the friendships that have the been the most difficult to maintain are the ones where mommas are overly involved. I always pray for wisdom about what my role is in each of these situations … I never want to do something that will cause further harm or keep an important lesson from being learned.
Praying for you!!
A few posts on this subject Jen are: http://modsquadblog.com/2011/09/turn-the-other-cheek/, http://modsquadblog.com/2011/04/sharing-in-his-suffering/, http://modsquadblog.com/2011/11/when-they-fall-short/.
You have inspired us and we will be writing more during the month of May!
I would love to have your prayers for daughter e-book, but do not own a device to get it. Is there a way I can get a pdf copy somewhere?
Thanks!
We are working on that! For now, you can download a Kindle reader for free from Amazon and get the Kindle version. You can read it right on your computer!