The Gilsons: Everyone is a child of God

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Everyone is a child of God

We've all heard this phrase before and if you attend the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you've sung this song since you were 2. And hopefully we all know it's true.=) Anyways, I've always associated it with myself that "I" am a child of God (emphasis on the me part) which is very important of course. Lately I've been struggling with parenting (I have 4 kids so I'm always struggling with parenting just like all parents do.=) Last night at our church's women's conference, one of the speakers made the statement that "everyone is a child of God." Now I've heard it before and I know it's true, but this time it was the most perfect statement to assist in my parenting. I couldn't tell you what else she was even talking about or what context she was using it in. It was just an answer to my prayers.

This morning we sat at the breakfast table and I shared with my kids my impressions from last night and asked what they thought. They agreed that everyone is a child of God. They agreed that Heavenly Father wants all of his children treated nicely and respectfully. So from now on, if any of us sees any of us treating someone unlike how they ought to be treated, we're going to try saying, "Remember, everyone is a child of God." Their quick response is supposed to be "Sorry so and so. I love you." They loved it and even wanted to role play. Boy, we just had too much fun. I'm optimistic that this will help some of the arguing and fighting that's been driving me crazy lately.=)

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Kid funnies

--Alex said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a star and hang it in my bedroom.

Calvin said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a cloud and use if for my pillow.

Izzy said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd go to the Milky Way and sell milk.

--While boiling apples for making applesauce Calvin said, "Look at all the hot going up. ... I smell BBQ." Alex said, "No, that's applesauce."

--While cleaning the basement and seeing Calvin not participating I said, "Calvin, do you know how to pick everything in here up?" Calvin said, "NO, I don't have big hands. I only have 2 hands." All I could do was laugh.

--Izzy said, "When I'm bored, I squish people's heads at church."

--Alex said, "I really want to take swimming lessons. I already know how to drown."

--Calvin after using the little potty. "Mommy, come get Henry quick or he's going to snitch my pee."

Favorite Homeschooling Quotes

"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

"If you simply can't have school that way, then you should be shut in black cells, deep under the ground, where you couldn't see, or hear a sound, and then if they'd give you a book and a candle and Miss Amelia, and her right-hand man, Mister Ruler, why you might learn something."--from Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter