{"id":806,"date":"2012-01-28T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/twelve-daily-habits-for-2012-habit-8-read-something-just-for-you-every-day\/"},"modified":"2015-07-25T17:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T21:04:19","slug":"twelve-daily-habits-for-2012-habit-8-read-something-just-for-you-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/twelve-daily-habits-for-2012-habit-8-read-something-just-for-you-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Daily Habits for 2012&#8212;Habit #8: Read Something Just for You Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Habit #8: Read Something Just for You Every Day<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Parents are busy people! And last on the list of \u201cto do\u2019s\u201d in our lives is often anything that is \u201cfor us.\u201d However, it might behoove us to look at some of those things that we do \u201cfor us\u201d as not being just \u201cfor us\u201d after all. Reading for yourself each day could just be one of those things.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I\u2019ve been a big reader all throughout my parenting years\u2014parenting books, homeschooling magazines and catalogs, devotional materials, and discipleship books are staples that I have pored over through the years. However, a few years ago, I realized that I was seldom picking these things up anymore. I would stack them on my headboard or desk, look at them longingly, remember the days of long naps for the kids and my \u201clunch and reading time,\u201d but not really get to them. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">In the past few years, I have gotten better about going back to my own reading. But in 2012, I want to make it even more of a priority. Not just Bible and character in the morning with the kids, not just reading stories to Jakie, not just a chapter book with my guys, not just a family devotional at the dinner table\u2014but my \u201cTrusting God\u201d by Jerry Bridges and my \u201cGrammar Girl Devotional\u201d and my \u201cWriting Handbook\u201d and my \u201cRaising Kids for True Greatness\u201d and on and on. Just for me\u2026because in the long run, reading for me is not really just reading for me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habit #8: Read Something Just for You Every DayParents are busy people! And last on the list of \u201cto do\u2019s\u201d in our lives is often anything that is \u201cfor us.\u201d However, it might behoove us to look at some of those things that we do \u201cfor us\u201d as not being just \u201cfor us\u201d after all. 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