Food for Thought
Raising Confident Kids One Conversation at a Time
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I had purchased and read all of those parenting books because I believe that, as parents, we are given the privilege and carry the burden of creating the world’s greatest commodity: productive adult members of society. I had also taken to heart the realization that the only thing my children will get to take with them to Heaven is their character.
The dilemma I was facing was that I understood that character training was not something you can cram for. Like typing or playing the piano, your character has to work at a subconscious level; and lasting, character training has to be absorbed slowly, in small bite-sized pieces. I felt like I never found the time or opportunities to feed my girls these pieces; and I had no idea where or how to begin either.
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About the Book
"As parents, we all want to raise happy kids who grow up to be confident adults. The problem is that kids aren’t born with instruction manuals, and no one shows us how to raise them like that.
Character training isn’t like the spelling test that you forgot to study for in school. You can’t cram for it! It’s more like playing a minuet on the piano or hitting a homerun. A person's character has to function at a subconscious level and that level of unconscious competency has to be developed piece by piece, layer by layer—and in the case with our kids—conversation by conversation over time.
Food for Thought is designed to equip parents to start those conversations. It is a series of open-ended questions laid out in a calendar format to help parents have conversations with their kids that will help shape them into the adults we all hope they become."
About the Author
Kim Moog, an author and speaker, is a BTCL graduate and works as a mentor through Re:New Ministries. She and her husband of thirty-one years, Michael, have three daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren and live in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Moog is the author of The Debt-Free Diet and When the Storms Come Early. She and her husband spend their free time volunteering in both their community, church, and with their large, extended families.