January 9, 2009
Radiant Church ~ 4020 Maizeland Road ~ Colorado Springs, CO 80909 ~ (719) 597-4402
As the winter months draw near, we'd like to Discussion Group Leaders
remind you of our meeting cancellation Niki Broyles ~ Orange
policy. If District 11 is cancelled or on a Lindsey Giaffoglione & Heather Huerta ~ Red
delay due to inclement weather, our MOPS Anna Peterson ~ Yellow
meeting will be canceled. We will meet Michelle Vacha ~ Green
again on the next regularly scheduled date.
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January 12th is “Organize Your Home Day”
Do you ever wonder who comes up with these holidays?!? In any event, what a better time than the New Year to start organizing
your home and life. Avoid becoming overwhelmed by starting simple and setting realistic goals for yourself. Here are a few
places you can start:
• Find a home for all the gifts you received over the holidays. If things need to be returned or exchange, do so now.
• Purchase birthday cards, anniversary cards, etc. for the first quarter in 2009. That way, when the occasion rolls around,
you’ll be prepared.
• Recycle magazine and newspapers (magazines older than three months and newspapers older than one week).
• Clean out your refrigerator. Throw out old leftovers and expired condiments.
• Clean out your medicine cabinet. Throw out any expired medicines, cosmetics or never-used toiletries.
• Make a schedule for yourself. Write one small thing for each calendar day that you would like to accomplish such as clear-
ing off the top of the refrigerator, throwing away expired coupons or consolidating all your movies and cd’s to one location.
Visit www.getorganizednow.com for a practical January calendar and other helpful hints.
How many different hugs can you create? Bear Hugs? Teach your children to give and accept compliments.
Pinky Hugs? Have fun finding new ways to say “I Practice throughout the day and celebrate kindness.
Love You.”
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people,
promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan
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Meeting Notes
When squabbles are unavoidable, concerned parents have a plan for teaching their children how to fight fair. Here are
several suggestions:
• Expect fights. Children use fights as a way to measure parental love as well as to learn empathy, process their
emotions and develop the negotiation skills they’ll need as adults.
• Give it time. Resist the urge to jump right in and referee. Let your children have time to learn what they need to
learn without your interference. Short of them harming each other, give them time to work it out alone.
• Listen. When your children come to you with their struggles, tune in to their words. Recall the reasons for sibling
squabbles. Listen for the cause beneath the struggle.
Help unity grow in-house by teaching your children to fight fair. In time, they will learn the rules, be able to work
through conflicts, and find that wonderful harmony. How good and pleasant it can be!
(by Elisa Morgan in the Mom’s Devotional Bible)