Today’s Inspiration: Teaching Your Children

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9

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Did You Know: Disney Parks Extends Special Offers for Military Families

“Disney Parks has a long-standing history of honoring military personnel and their families and is pleased to announce that the special theme park tickets and room offers for active military and spouses, retired military, National Guard and Reservists are now extended to September of 2012. This announcement coincides with The Walt Disney Company’s participation in “Joining Forces,” an initiative created by the Obama Administration designed to bring attention to the unique needs of America’s military families” stated Thomas Smith, Social Media Director for Disney Parks.

See full article at the Disney Parks Blog.

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Today’s Inspiration: Positive Influence

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23:26

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Did You Know: Take Your Child To Work Day is Thursday, April 28, 2011

The annual Take Our Sons and Daughters To Work(R) day is scheduled for Thursday, April 28th. This annual program has been taking place for 19 years and serves as a wonderful opportunity to expose your children to the workplace. It allows them to learn about good work habits, the power of education, and gain healthy attitudes about developing a career from their parents first.

DaughtersandSonsToWork.org has great resources to assist in Take Our Sons and Daughters To Work(R) day. Resources are for employers and coordinators, teachers and educators, and parents and mentors. The site includes a complete printable activity book for the student and many downloadable activites such as “The Bright Ideas” guide and “A Day in the Life of a Professional”. There are even planning tips to help you coordinate your Take Our Sons and Daughters To Work(R) program.

See DaughtersandSonstoWork.org for more information

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Today’s Inspiration: Child Rearing

“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.”
Deuteronomy 6:5-7

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Did You Know: Sesame Workshop Supports Military Families

Sesame Workshop(TM) is a nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street(TM) that is proud to offer support to help military families through Talk, Listen, Connect(TM). They provide support to preschoolers and families as they face challenging transitions such as deployments, homecomings, and changes such as combat related injuries. This multimedia, bilingual program helps young children (between ages two to five years old) through the difficult transitions that come with life in the military.

Sesame Workshop(TM) sought out the advice of experts to develop the Talk, Listen, Connect(TM) program. The outreach team also spent countless hours meeting with military families to gain an accurate picture of the challenges they face and how the Sesame Workshop(TM) could provide programs to assist children in being able to talk about their feelings in a safe and positive way during these difficult times.

Visit Sesameworkshop.org to access the free

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Today’s Inspiration: Worship & Praise Like Children

2 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them
3 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 18:2-4

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Easter Activities for Kids

Help children to better understand the death and resurrection of Jesus with these activities and many more found at the web sites below!

PALM SUNDAY
Use palm branches from church or have your children make palms out of green construction paper. Decorate the dinner table with them. Before dinner read Philippians 2:5-8 and leave dinner items in the kitchen, have each family member serve another dinner.

RESURRECTION ROLLS
Made with crescent rolls and a disappearing marshmallow!
http://blessingsforlife.com/recipes/holidays/resurrectionrolls.htm

RESURRECTION COOKIES
A powerful way to share God’s Word about the true meaning of Easter coupled with making fun cookies for Easter morning.
http://www.creativebiblestudy.com/resurrectioncookies.html

RESURRECTION EGGS
Each egg holds a symbol that tells about the events leading up the Christ’s death and resurrection.
Make your own: http://www.creativebiblestudy.com/resurrection-eggs.html
Pre-made: http://www.familychristian.com/shop/product.aprodID=119502&name=FamilyLife-Resurrection%20Eggs

JELLY BEAN PRAYER
Let the jelly beans in your children’s baskets tell the good news story of Easter!
http://www.creativebiblestudy.com/Christian-Easter.html

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Today’s Inspiration: Responsibility

“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”
-Charles Swindoll

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Did You Know: Operation Purple Camp Registration Now Open

Operation Purple camps offer a free week of summer fun for military kids with parents who have been, are currently, or will be deployed. These free week-long camps are provided through the generous support of Goldman Sachs Gives, the Sierra Club, and the Sierra Club Foundation. The goal of the Operation Purple camp program is to give military children tools to help deal with the stresses that result from a parent’s deployment, through a memorable camp experience in a “purple” environment. Operation Purple camps are open to military children of all ranks and Services: active and reserve components—and give priority to children whose parents are deployed or deploying anytime between September 2010 and December 2011. At Operation Purple camps, military children experience an exciting week of outdoor fun and adventure.

2011 Operation Purple camps will be held in 25 states as well as Okinawa, Japan. Host camps are chosen annually and locations often change from year to year. Registration closes April 29th

To find a camp near you or for more information visit the National Military Family Association

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