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Should We Help Our Adult Children? (4) Parenting Tip #44

November 9, 2017 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Angry Teen {Mom of Many}

  This is the 4th in the series, "Should We Help Our Adult Children?" If you have not read 1-3, go do that now. #1 in This Series #2 in This Series #3 in This Series #4 in This Series (you are here) If you have, and are not sure still if you can help, even though everything looks kosher, then start out by helping them on a small scale. Lend them a few dollars to get by and see if they pay you back. Give them a ride and see … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Parenting tips, recommendations, Things I've Learned Tagged With: adoptive parents, family, parenting, parenting tips, special needs, stressed parents, support, trials

Should We Help Our Adult Children? (2) Parenting Tip #44

October 7, 2017 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Parenting Tips {Mom of Many}

  This is the 2nd in a series, "Should We Help Our Adult Children?" If you can answer all of the questions from yesterday, “Yes,” then it’s looking good for you to step out and help your adult child that is on SHAKY GROUND. Now let’s break it down. Is your SHAKY GROUND adult child really on the right road? One of my Love My DIY Home subscribers sent me this quote: “If someone shows you who they are, believe them.” Too often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Parenting tips, recommendations, Things I've Learned Tagged With: adoptive parents, parenting, parenting tips, special needs, stressed parents, support, trials

Should We Help Our Adult Children? Parenting Tip #44

September 6, 2017 by Val Frania 2 Comments

Should we help our adult children? {Mom of Many)

It's been a while since I've posted here on Mom of Many because I've been busy putting together my DIY program. But I'm back today with the first in a series - it started out to be a simple set of tips and morphed into a full-blown series because there was so much to say. Have you ever wondered... How do I tell them “No,” when I can’t help? Am I obligated to help every time they ask? What do I do when I have a demanding or whiny … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Parenting tips, Things I've Learned Tagged With: Adoption, adoptive parents, discipline, family, parenting, parenting tips, RAD, stressed parents, support, trials

Calling Protective Services? A Message to the Concerned Onlooker

May 9, 2017 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Do you leave your kids in the car? {Mom of Many}

I just read an article about a mom who left her 4 year old son in the car for a couple of minutes to run into the store. Read the article here. She is a good mom, cares for her child, works hard, is faithful and loving. She did what her mom did with her back when she was little. She did what she thought was best in the moment. While she was in the store an onlooker called the police and took a picture of her son sitting in the car alone. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Things I've Learned Tagged With: challenges, compassion, family, mothers, parenting, special needs, stress, stressed parents, support

Should We Help Our Adult Children? (3) Parenting Tip #44

February 8, 2017 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Does your teenage son bully you? {Mom of Many}

  This is #3 in the Series, "Should we Help our Adult Children?" Read #1 and #2 first, please. #1 in This Series #2 in This Series Yesterday I left off with: "There was one defining moment that set my course for the rest of our parenting for when they were all adults." Let me tell you about that moment. When our older kids were in college, they all came home from college for Easter one year and I found myself falling into the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Parenting tips, recommendations, Things I've Learned Tagged With: adoptive parents, family, parenting, parenting tips, stress, stressed parents, support, trials

Stop Apologizing! Parenting Tip #42

February 5, 2017 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

parenting tips {Mom of Many}

  True Story... Years ago we saw a rash of food theft in our home. We limited the sugar many of our kids consumed because of their sensitivity, though occasionally we would reintroduce it into their diets to test it out. Within two weeks we'd see such a negative change in their behavior that we'd withdraw it again. There were some who would sneak whatever they could find when my back was turned - a mom has got to use the bathroom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adoption, Challenges, Family, Parenting tips Tagged With: Adoption, adoptive parents, discipline, family, forgiveness, parenting, parenting tips, stressed parents, support, trials

Do You Have the Urge to Purge? The M.O.M.s March Challenge!

December 8, 2016 by Val Frania 2 Comments

March Urge to Purge Challenge {Mom of Many}

  A few months ago we had a church Urge to Purge FREE garage sale. We all brought in stuff we didn't want and everyone took home what they wanted from others' donations - leftovers were donated to a local charity. It felt so good to get rid of stuff - and share with our church friends at the same time. It was such a success that this month I'm challenging you to purge! Spring is around the corner and it's a great time to get rid of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges Tagged With: challenges, clutter, purging

MOMentum Challenge Calendar

September 28, 2016 by Val Frania 2 Comments

February MOMentum Challenge {Love My DIY Home}

Let's keep the MOMentum going with a February challenge. Just click on the picture below to download it, print it, and then post it where you can see it. At the end of the month those in our Facebook M.O.M.s group who have accomplished each challenge, will have their name entered into a drawing for a prize - TBA! I benefited so much last month that I just had to do another one! If you are not yet in our FB M.O.M.s group, you will get an … [Read more...]

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Do you stress over your “TO DO LIST”? Parenting Tip #39

August 24, 2016 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

Does your to do list control you? {Mom of Many}

TO DO LISTs Only Grow Wash the clothes, sweep the floor, change the bedding, do the dishes, and on and on. Moms are probably the busiest people in the world, and the most under appreciated. Unless you're a mom, you have no clue. Seriously. Even after all the kids leave the nest, Momhood doesn't end. Though our nest is empty, I still interact with my kids. Being a mom cannot be described as a full-time job. It doesn't end at 5:00pm nor does … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Parenting tips Tagged With: Adoption, adoptive parents, family, parenting, parenting tips, special needs, stress, stressed parents, support

Got Bible? Parenting Tip #38

July 9, 2016 by Val Frania Leave a Comment

I Don't Have Time for Devotions! I promise, this is practical. It's not a sermon. It's not a brow beating. If anyone knows how hard it is to be consistently in the Word, it's me. I've struggled all my life to be consistent. Too often we think we have to do things in a traditional way - but forget we have liberty. Not liberty to sin but liberty to obey God and His leading how we see fit and how He directs us. What? We have freedom to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Challenges, Family, Parenting tips, recommendations, Things I've Learned Tagged With: adoptive parents, Bible Reading, family, parenting tips, stressed parents

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“If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.“

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Want God’s Best?

“God reserves His best for those who leave the choice to Him.” Pastor Randy King
Abandonment {Mom of Many}

Don’t shoot the messenger.

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Galatians 4:16

Learn to Learn

"The first object of teaching, then, is to stimulate in the pupil the love of learning, and to form in him the habits and ideals of independent study." ~ John Milton Gregory

Allergic to Smoke?

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." ~ C.T. Studd

Abraham Lincoln on Criticism

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

Consider the Cost

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." ~Winston Churchill

Charles Spurgeon

"Our blessed Lord reveals himself to his people more in the valleys, in the shades, in the deeps, than he does anywhere else. He has a way and an art of showing himself to his children at midnight, making the darkness light by his presence."

Progress through Perseverance

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight of life, knowing neither victory nor defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The Reformed Pastor – Richard Baxter

“We must carry on our work with patience. We must bear with many abuses and injuries from those to whom we seek to do good. When we have studied for them, and prayed for them, and exhorted them, and beseeched them with all earnestness and condescension, and given them what we are able, and tended them as if they had been our children, we must look that many of them will requite us with scorn and hatred and contempt, and account us their enemies, because we ‘tell them the truth.’ Now, we must endure all this patiently, and we must unweariedly hold on in doing good, ‘in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.’ We have to deal with distracted men who will fly in the face of their physician, but we must not, therefore, neglect their cure. He is unworthy to be a physician, who will be driven away from a frenetic patient by foul words. Yet, alas, when sinners reproach and slander us for our love, and are more ready to spit in our faces, than to thank us for our advice, what heart-risings will there be, and how will the remnants of old Adam (pride and passion) struggle against the meekness and patience of the new man! And how sadly do many ministers come off under such trials!”

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I'm an empty nester wife to one, mom to 15 (many) and Grammie to 13. Mom of Many is a gathering place for ministry moms who reject isolation and embrace community. No one is alone if they reach out to others for support and practice transparency. Welcome! I hope we can become friends.

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