From the moment our children arrive in our homes, we are teaching them how to see the world, what to consider important, what to seek, what to love. Mothers have the opportunity to form home and family life in such a way that God’s reality comes alive to our children each day.
The meals, conversations, and prayers we foster become the training and our homes, our presence, and the world are the training ground. As these tiny human beings find themselves swimming in the love, affection, and tenderness of their mothers, they will flourish and grow.
When they are talked to, engaged with, invited to explore and ponder, they cultivate a lasting love for learning and grow intellectually and spiritually. The whole world becomes their laboratory where they learn and develop, all because there was a person conducting the order and pattern of their purposeful days.
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