The Gift of Music
August 27, 2019
Music becomes the gateway to increased brain power for all areas of learning, including math, science, and memory. Here’s how to incorporate it in your child’s everyday life to build a big brain!
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Six Ways Parents Destroy Their Children Without Trying
It is difficult to train up a child in the way he should go, and some very good and sincere people fail.
Too Young to Spank?
When is a child too young to spank? The answer is obviously dependent on your definition of the word “spank.”
A Wise Woman Builds Her House
A wise woman doesn’t take anything for granted. She is thankful to be loved and seeks to make herself more lovely.
Obsessions
Men are a different sort of people that are very hard for us more emotionally-balanced females to understand. To prove this statement I would like to bring to your attention one very bad male quirk. They become obsessed with…
Spank and Save a Child
According to the research, children spanked up to the age of 6 were likely as teenagers to perform better at school and were more likely to carry out volunteer work and to want to go to college than their peers who had never been physically disciplined.
Cloistered Homeschool Syndrome
The Foger family came to stay with us one spring about 12 years ago while they were on furlough from Mozambique.
The Will To Dominate
The following article deals with a very important subject that we have touched on before but never discussed in detail—a child’s will to dominate. I chose this letter because it so clearly represents the many letters we receive.
Lazy Husbands, Hungry Kids and Hopeful Wives
Facing homelessness, a concerned mother of toddlers asks what her response should be to a husband that stays on the computer, sleeps and leaves bills unpaid. Michael Pearl examines the circumstance in light of Scripture.
The Jezebel Profile
When the name Jezebel comes to mind, most of us see the painted face of a seductively dressed woman gazing into the eyes of a man who lacks good sense. The Bible portrays Jezebel in a different light.
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Autism
What exactly is autism? What does it do to the brain? What can we do to stop the growing numbers? And once a child is diagnosed with autism, what can be done to help the child overcome some of the difficulties associated with it? I have plowed through a mountain of information and will give you the best I have found…
The Gift of Music
Music becomes the gateway to increased brain power for all areas of learning, including math, science, and memory. Here’s how to incorporate it in your child’s everyday life to build a big brain!
What is Neuroplasticity?
Why should you want to read a book about the strange-sounding, relatively new science called neuroplasticity? How could knowledge of this science help you? More than you could ever believe.
Teaching the Grands
One of the grandkids asked me what neuroplasticity meant and what my new book was all about. This is what I told them…
Never Underestimate the Need to Be Needed
Do your kids feel that they are a vital part of the family “team?” Everyone– even the youngest–needs a job to help the family; it causes them to build confidence, and feel important, and that they matter! Here’s how you can build that team spirit in your kids!
Ponder the Path of Thy Feet
Right now your children are small and trusting you to help them climb the little hills. Help them do it (but don’t do it for them) and when they are grown they will climb the mountains alone with wisdom and confidence.
Coming Soon… August 2019
Neuroplasticity is the study of how the brain changes itself. Through personal stories as well as quotes from the world of science, my new book introduces what is happening through neuroplasticity that you can use to make your life and that of your children better.
Give Him Some Slack, Not Flack
When I look around at the marriages that are really sweet, I see that the lady of the house cuts her man some slack. Giving slack is just acknowledging that he deserves to be allowed to be who he is.
A Peek Behind the Scenes
I want to introduce our team to you and let them share how they came to be part of No Greater Joy Ministries. We are profoundly thankful that God has raised up such a dedicated group of servants to aid us in the work he has called us to do.
Put Your Eyeballs on Me
The need in a child’s soul for you—his parent—to look at him is overwhelming. Face-time to a child is like sunshine to a flower or rain to parched soil.
