Listener Q&A (consequences, child's weaknesses, mom's mistakes), Episode 9.  Plus Meet Val's Son, Andrew.

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Free Val's video workshop on Time Saving Strategies (slides in youtube shownotes)
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Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders by Joel Manby
Strength Finders 2.0 by Tom Rath
Do Hard Things by Brett and Alex Harris

Question: "How do we handle it when we make a mistake as a mom?"
"Sometimes, when we make mistakes as a mom and we apologize to our kids about that, that's a more effective lesson in their life than if we had gotten it right at the beginning... It's not our role to be perfect.  It's our role to model for our kids how to apologize when we've made a mistake, to learn from our mistakes, to listen to God for direction in our life and that we're mold-able to his direction.  Let them see you be excited that God is showing you something new in your character that you can work on."
Question about dealing with our child's weaknesses
"Most of the time, our kids' weaknesses are strengths in disguise.  It's like the strength is inside a treasure chest and the weaknesses have it all locked up and we want to help them throw off the weaknesses or work on the weaknesses so that you can unlock that treasure chest and fully experience the strength!"
"We want to be discovering our children.  God created each of them uniquely with all of these wonderful hidden, uhhh wonderfulnesses! And we want to discover those and hone them and help them to balance their life. And that's just one of the great privileges of being a parent - studying your child."
Topic of appropriate consequences
"Appropriate consequences, coupled with a gentle, humble, grace-filled spirit helps their heart today and prepares them for life tomorrow".
"Our consequences are going to be given lovingly and mercifully and appropriately... Either they're going to learn from appro

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