resources for joy
I am keynoting a conference here in Ottawa today (April 20, 2024) and here are links to many of the resources I mention during the talks. Enjoy!
RESOURCES
Homeschool resources:
Video with grandson doing dictation
Another grandson, another video
The Hippie Housewife on discipline
A few podcast episodes: make joy normal
Some truths in family life PART ONE. PART TWO.
Blog posts:
Books:
Spiritual Growth, recent reads
Surprised by Joy CS Lewis
For a list of Jacques Phillipe’s books, click HERE
Searching for and Maintaining Peace Fr. Jacques Phillipe
Interior Freedom Fr. Jacques Phillipe
Household order:
Sink Reflections by Marla Cilley
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Magareta Magnusson
Assessing our lives and self awareness:
Hallowed be this House by Thomas Howard
Video: how and why to create a purpose statement
Parent’s prayer:
Dear Lord, help us to be better parents. Teach us to understand our children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep us from interrupting them or contradicting them. Make us a courteous to them as we want them to be to us.
Help us never punish them for our own selfish satisfaction or to show our power. Let us not tempt our children to steal or lie. And guide us daily that we may demonstrate by all we say and do that honesty produces happiness.
When we are out of sorts, help us hold our tongues. May we ever be mindful that our children are children and we should not expect them to act like adults.
Help us never rob them of the opportunity to wait on themselves and to make decisions. Bless us with the bigness to grant them all their reasonable requests and the courage to deny them privileges we know will do them harm.
Make us fair, just and kind parents. We pray for calmness, poise and self-control and fit us to be loved, respected and imitated by our children. Amen
AA prayer:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
