I came across some great books from the Eyres and have been reading "Teaching Your Childrens Values" along with another book that one of their daughters recommends called "The Parenting Breakthrough" by Merrilee Boyack which talks about teaching kids to be independent. I have really learned a lot and plan to pick up a couple more books by the Eyres as the years go by. We started with a value from the Eyre's book in February - Honesty. That went really well! Not that the boys are perfect, but they understand what it is about and why it is important. We've already branched off a little and are teaching "Joy" this month - our own value. We want the kids to be joyful and find ways to embrace the good things in life. The values are something that you don't just teach once, but over and over again at different levels as they grow up. So far, I'm really finding some inner peace in knowing that we're doing lots of different things to take our jobs as parents seriously.
Ok - now really, I have some crafting that HAS to get down over the next few weeks. My fingers are crossed!

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