{"id":1224,"date":"2010-06-06T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-152-preschoolers-traditions-and-playing-with-them\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:11:02","slug":"day-152-preschoolers-traditions-and-playing-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-152-preschoolers-traditions-and-playing-with-them\/","title":{"rendered":"day 152: preschoolers\u2014traditions and playing with them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDuring dinner Joshua and Kayla told some jokes from their joke books, and Mommy and Daddy talked about all of the yard work we have to do on Saturday. I don\u2019t know why adults like to work so much! After dinner Daddy read to us from the Bible and we sang. I chose \u201cFather Abraham,\u201d which is my favorite song \u2018coz I like the motions. We cleaned the kitchen quick so Daddy, Joshua, Josiah, and I could play army men.\u201d <\/strong><\/span>
                                       \u201cJonathan\u2019s Journal\u201d<\/strong><\/span>

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Again, we see Jonathan included in the family discussion and activities. Little kids just don\u2019t want to be left out!<\/span>

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Additionally, our family had many, many traditions, as written about above–singing, cleaning the kitchen, and playing together in the evenings. (This excerpt took place over ten years ago, and guess what we did last night, these many years later? Cleaned up the meal, went outside and played Frisbee, came back in and played table games, and then had \u201cspiritual discussions.\u201d Traditions are things that never really change, you know?)<\/span>

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Traditions give our children something to hold onto\u2014something that makes us our family, unlike everybody else\u2019s. They are those things that we hear our children say, \u201cWe always\u2026\u201d Why? Because they love to say those words. They love to know that \u201cwe always\u201d do this or that\u2014that those are constances in their lives.<\/span>

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Another important point about today\u2019s passage is that of the preschooler choosing a song. I have gone over and over how dangerous it is to children\u2019s contentment and obedience to give them choices for which they are not ready too early\u2014and how we are given to our children to make those choices for them until they are ready to do so. Likewise, however, I have stressed the importance of giving our children choices in things that are in their control. As long as our preschoolers obeyed, they got to choose books, songs, movies, games, etc. that we did all together. Jonathan always picked the same song\u2014and that\u2019s okay, too, because \u201che always\u2026\u201d<\/span>

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Lastly, I can\u2019t stress enough the importance of (1) having normal times\u2014just times to hang out, talk, play and be together; and (2) playing with our children. Ray played with the older kids nearly every night when they were little (while he worked at least sixty hours a week\u2014it was a priority)\u2014and he continues to play with our kids today, including our young adults! We wanted our kids to want to be home. We wanted our kids to choose family over others. One way that we could help those things happen was to play with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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