Dear Souls and Hearts Member, If you have serious difficulties with self-discipline, it’s going to be hard for you to discipline others, including children, well. Period. Full stop. What is discipline? But let’s back up a bit. What is discipline? There is often...
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Love Languages
Discovering Love Languages
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Chapter 7 of Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell’s 1997 book, The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively is aptly titled “How to Discover Your Child’s Primary Love Language.” Only one primary love language?...
The Love Language of Service and Your Parts
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, On we go with the final love language that Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell describe in their 1997 book, The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively, which is service. This reflection is the seventh in our...
Love, Gifts, and Parts
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Today, we continue with the fourth “love language” described in Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell’s 1997 book The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively, which is gifts. This reflection is the sixth in our...
Quality Time and Your Parts
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Today, we are continuing with our series that expands Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell 1997 book The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children Effectively to include the childlike parts of ourselves and others. As a...
Words of Affirmation and Parts
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Bishop Oscar Romero highlighted the need for affirmation when he wrote: “I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God, who loves us and who wants to save us.”...
A Touch of Love
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, “To touch can be to give life,” said Michelangelo. And today, I bring you the third in our series on expanding and enriching Gary Chapman and Ross Cambell’s book The 5 Love Languages of Children: The Secret to Loving Children...
How Children Need Love from You
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, In July 1967, the Beatles released a single titled All You Need is Love, written by John Lennon and it hit #1 on the Billboard 100 in the U.S., and topped the charts in many other countries. Why? Opinions abound on this question. I...
Healing Our Parts … So We Can Love Better
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Catholicism is all about love. That’s the core message of the Gospel, the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ for us in our fallen human condition. The two great commandment upon which “depend all the law and the prophets” (cf. Matthew...