{"id":836,"date":"2011-06-15T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:44:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:44:27","slug":"when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 \u201cRockies and Reading\u201d Part I of II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>\u201cYou shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and <u>when you rise up<\/u>\u201d Deuteronomy 6:7<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">When our babies got to be about six months old or so\u2014and then throughout their toddlerhood\u2014we seldom rocked them to sleep. If the baby was still nursing, I would nurse, rock, sing, oftentimes read, etc. then frequently put the baby in bed awake. (It should be noted that this was after a gentle introduction to the world with frequent nursings and close physical contact for the first few months.) When the baby was being weaned, the first feeding to go was often the afternoon nursing\u2014and it was replaced with the baby\u2019s own special story and song time. <\/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;\">While we seldom rocked our babies to sleep after six months or so, they were almost always gotten out of bed following naps and in the mornings with \u201crockies and reading.\u201d This post is falling under \u201cwhen you rise up,\u201d but could also fall under \u201cwhen you sit in your house\u201d (after baby\u2019s nap). \u201cRockies and reading\u201d time is an opportunity to do many amazing things in parenting of these little ones: (1) Help them start their day or late afternoon\/evening cheerfully; (2) Give them a little bonding time of their own (when other siblings do not need or \u201cget\u201d Mommy; (3) Start their Bible teaching, read aloud times, and love for learning at an early age; (4) Build memories that will warm your heart when your three youngest children are eighteen, sixteen, and twelve (!). <\/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;\">We had two baskets for our babies: the baby toy basket and the baby book basket (more on that in \u201ccharacter training\u201d through chores in the morning later on). The baby book basket held cardboard, cloth, and plastic coated books for Baby. Several of these were Bible story books, and I read from these every day for as long as Baby would sit there and look at them with me, rocked, sang songs, did rhymes, and bonded when I got the toddler out of bed in the mornings or after naps. Our toddlers never missed being rocked to sleep with \u201crockies and readings\u201d a couple of times a day! Smile\u2026<\/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;\">Tomorrow: links for some of my favorite \u201cearly Bible books\u201d for toddlers. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up\u201d Deuteronomy 6:7When our babies got to be about six months old or so\u2014and then throughout their toddlerhood\u2014we seldom rocked them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[630,643,488,633,308,281],"tags":[307,268,101,318,294,39,286,319,314,311],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 \u201cRockies and Reading\u201d Part I of II - Character Ink<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 \u201cRockies and Reading\u201d Part I of II - Character Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cYou shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up\u201d Deuteronomy 6:7When our babies got to be about six months old or so\u2014and then throughout their toddlerhood\u2014we seldom rocked them to [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Character Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/characterinkcompany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/characterinkcompany?ref=bookmarks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-16T03:39:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-15T01:44:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Donna\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Donna\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/\",\"name\":\"\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 \u201cRockies and Reading\u201d Part I of II - Character Ink\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-16T03:39:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-08-15T01:44:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/#\/schema\/person\/801ef5fa0749f7c8c379e32c743fba64\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/when-you-rise-up-faith-in-the-mornings-rockies-and-reading-part-i-of-ii\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u201cWhen You Rise Up\u201d: Faith in the Mornings\u2014 \u201cRockies and Reading\u201d Part I of II\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/\",\"name\":\"Character Ink\",\"description\":\"Home of the Language Lady &amp; 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