PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 286: Raising Children to be Adults, Part 1
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 286: Raising Children to be Adults, Part 1
Allison Hartman from Pensacola, Florida joins me today to talk about preparing our children for life. Instead of babying them, we raise them to be mature adults who are ready to become accomplished entrepreneurs and hard-working children.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Good to be with you again. We’re recording this the day after Thanksgiving. What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had yesterday! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It’s such a great time of the year, isn’t it?
The forecast for the weather here was going to be cold, down to zero as we came into the evening. But amazingly, we had this glorious day. It was beautiful and sunny. We were warm the whole day. It was so great! We were concerned about that because we are now too big to have it at our home. We have, up until last year and this year, we used to have it in our big social room. We could fit about 85 for a sit-down meal.
But now, the family keeps growing, and more people can come in. So, now we have it over at the wedding barn on Serene and Sam’s land. This year, I think we would have had well over 120 people for a beautiful sit-down meal. It was so great. We had a feast, didn’t we? By the way, I’ve got Allison Hartman here with me. Every time Allison and the family come to stay, we always do a podcast together.
Allison: It’s so good to be here.
Nancy: So, here we are. Hi, Allison!
Allison: So good to be here! We love it. The podcasts are always our favorite thing to do together.
Nancy: Yes. But I have to tell you about our Thanksgiving, although if you’ve listened to me before, you’ll know what we do. We are traditional! We do the same thing every year. There’s something about tradition, isn’t there? We have a big feast. Lots of turkey and lamb, of course.
I cooked a big lamb in one oven and a turkey in the other oven. Two of our sons brought lamb. We usually have a competition to see whose is the best. I actually hate conceding, but I think Stephen’s was great! Did you taste it?
Allison: It was the best. It was amazing!
Nancy: It was unbelievably amazing! He’s a great cook. He is actually known, just about going to say the world over, but not quite the world over! His sphere of influence, which is a big sphere as manager of the Newsboys, but he’s always asked to come and cook his lamb chops at any special occasion. There’s absolutely nothing like them in the whole of the world!
We didn’t have the lamb chops for Thanksgiving. He was sharing with me at Thanksgiving that he has quite a number of festivities at this time of the year coming up. He said the other day, he had to buy lamb chops and he spent about $500! They are expensive!
We would have had about four lamb roasts, and all the other things. Then after our eating together, we always have speeches and toasting. We love speeches. We are a family of speeches. That’s always so great for people to get up and share something of the goodness of God, the great things that we have to be so thankful for. Then we go outside. Praise the Lord! It was so warm and beautiful! We had our tug-of wars! Wasn’t that fun?
Allison: Oh, that was so fun. So fun. We had the dads versus the sons, the moms versus the daughters.
Nancy: And the children. For many years, of course, the dads could outdo the sons. But then, it got to these strapping sons growing up! Then they would always beat the dads. But this year, the dads beat the sons!
Allison: That’s right!
Nancy: How did that happen?
Allison: Well, there might have been a little cheating going on. We might have had a son come join the dads’ side. [laughter]
Nancy: That was pretty amazing. It was a pretty fierce competition, of course!
Allison: And then the egg toss! My goodness! The biggest egg toss I’ve ever seen! The line just kept going on.
Nancy: Yes, yes. That’s always such fun. And then, they got on again to arm wrestling. Did you see them arm wrestle?
Allison: I didn’t, but I heard about it.
Nancy: Oh, you missed it! Goodness me! I couldn’t believe it. These guys are all so tough! They’re so strong, and they all work out. Man, to see that! Did you go see that? You did. Wasn’t it something else? They would go red in their faces. Who was going to win? Then it got to, I thought Arden would win it. But no.
Then it got to Rocky Barrett, this is Pearl’s son. He’s been working out a lot lately. I didn’t know how strong he had gotten. He sat there like a big chief at the table, waiting for the next person to come. They came, OK, because they thought, “Oh, well, we’ll beat Rocky!” And he just went boomph! There wasn’t even a struggle! He put their arms down like, OK. So, the next one came. Boomph! OK, this one’s there. The next one comes, boomph! Nobody would come after that! [laughter] He was the winner for this year! We’ll see who wins next year!
Allison: So fun!
Nancy: Yes, it was a lot of fun. We so love it. Anyway, now we’re been getting to see one another quite a bit this year, because we have the retreats. We have three retreats a year in Panama City that Allison and her husband Daniel organize for us. They’re coming up. It’s getting close to our first one. Tell us all about them!
Allison: Our Winter Retreat is in January. We started doing January retreats, because our April retreat got so big we just couldn’t handle all the people in the main room. It’s kind of nice. The winter retreat, actually, last year, has probably become my favorite, because it was smaller. You could get to know people. It was very spiritually challenging. The young people were on fire. It was wonderful. This year it’s January 3rd through the 10th, 2024.
Nancy: Yes, that’s really straight after Christmas!
Allison: Yes, it’s right after New Year’s Eve.
Nancy: But hardly time to think!
Allison: I know. The advantage of coming in January is that the rates are low, because it’s the off-season. But we do have room for a few more families. It will be a fourth of the size of our main camp. But it’s really nice.
Then our next retreat after that will be our big, huge April retreat. Last year we had close to 1,000 people, about 120 families. There’s something powerful about numbers. What a neat way to meet other like-minded families!
As you can see, the Hilltop has become a place where so many of these families have come to settle. It’s so neat. When we come up, all the friends and all the young people that they’ve met each other at camp, they’re just back at their friendships. It’s so refreshing.
Nancy: Oh, yes, yes, it’s so wonderful!
Allison: If you want to find out about it, it’s on the website, https://aboverubiesgulfcoast.com/. You can find it there. Find on your website, https://aboverubies.org. Definitely get registered.
Nancy: And people come, families come, from all over the States, even as far as Canada. We’ve had them from New Zealand, so it’s not just people around Florida. People come from everywhere.
Allison: What an amazing Christmas present that would be for your family! I can’t think of anything better than having time on the Gulf, on the beach, meeting other like-minded amazing families. We have so much fun! And it’s great teaching, really encouraging teaching. But we really do have a lot of fun.
Nancy: So, maybe you’ll want to put one of those retreats on your calendar. That would be great! And then, recently, we had our last ladies’ retreat for the year. We seem to be having more family camps these days, but it was great to have a ladies’ retreat, right here in Tennessee. Allison came up for that one. She also did a seminar.
In fact, I think we should talk about some of those things today, Allison. Her subject was “Raising Children to be Adults.” Often, we think we’re just raising children to be children. But no, Allison’s vision is not just to raise her children to stay children but raising them to be adults. We’re going to get on and talk about that today. Let’s start right now!
Allison: Let’s do it! Let’s do it! You know, I’ve shared this before. I’ll start by saying that something my husband and I heard several years ago that stuck with us is that, as parents, our goal should be that our ceiling, meaning the highest that our lives get, is just our children’s floor. It’s our ceiling that becomes their floor.
Some people will take that as, “You know, that sounds like you’re enabling.” That’s not enabling. Enabling can be a negative, but I look at it as a positive. We want to springboard our children to be successful. I think the way we do it is by raising adults. That doesn’t start when they’re teens or young people. That starts early, early on.
I want to inspire and encourage you guys that it’s very possible to raise adults, but you have to start young. In our culture, I feel that we’re raising a bunch of consumers. We’re raising children. The way that we’re doing it, we don’t even realize it. We baby-talk to our children. We do everything for them instead of letting them get in a cook a meal and help with housework. We tend to want to, “Hey, you guys go outside and play! Let Mommy do this.”
Well, if we’re raising adults, and we’re raising mothers and fathers, then we need to allow them to do adult-like things, Mommy and Daddy-things, and not do it for them. What does that look like? Well, in my home, and again, I can only speak for our family. We’re self-employed. We run a very, very busy, successful photography studio. But then we also have many, many other streams of income.
Whatever we do, we include all of our children, no matter their age. I don’t believe that just because they’re the baby, or they’re the little ones, that they should be excluded. Everyone should have something to do. Sometimes you have to be intentional about that. You have to think of a job, but it’s worth it. We’ll start by talking about little ones, even three and four- and five-year-olds.
Nancy: OK, so, tell everybody the ages of your children, from top to bottom.
Allison: My oldest is 24. She’s expecting her second child. Then all the way down, I have a 21-year-old, 19-year-old, 17, 15, 14, 12, 10. Oh goodness, let me think. 7, 5, 3.
Nancy: And the baby is three. OK, you were saying, even little ones. Well, what kind of things would you give Selah to do?
Allison: If we’re doing housework, we don’t clean the house separately. We always clean as a team.
Nancy: Everything you do, you do together.
Allison: Everything we do as a family, we do it together as a team, because we are a team. My husband is the head coach, I’m the assistant coach, and all of our children, every morning we have a team meeting, and a family meeting. We figure out what our day’s going to look like.
But yeah, even if you just have them go around the house and pick up all the garbage cans and dump them in the main garbage can. Or “Here’s a can of Windex. I need you to go wipe down all the windows,” or “Wipe down all the baseboards.”
Nancy: You would give a job like that to little children.
Allison: To a three-year-old, or the five-year-old. “Take this, and I want you to wipe down all the baseboards.” That’s not really something they can mess up. They feel like they’re a part.
Folding towels. I haven’t touched laundry in years. I don’t think I’ve been in my laundry room for probably seven to ten years. I don’t touch laundry. Now, they might bring me a basket of laundry of my stuff, and I want to make sure it’s folded. I don’t have a real particular way of doing it, so I don’t get upset if my five-year-old folds towels in a not-so-perfect way.
Nancy: That’s something you really have to rearrange in your brain. I like everything just perfect. You’ve got to get that out of your brain! [laughter]
Allison: You really do! Because does it really matter? Does it really matter how the towels are folded? If your five-year-old did them, he is so proud of himself. Again, you’ve got to remember, you’re raising an adult. What do we want our daughters to be? Do we want them to be good, functioning adults, or do we want to have them stuck in little baby-land, to where they’re going to expect other people to do things for them?
That’s where we’re at in our culture. We’ve got young people who don’t know how to function. Like making phone calls. I never make phone calls to customer service. If I have my 12-year-old or 15-year-old sitting next to me, “Here, take the phone. Make this phone call. Call and tell them that we need to order this and that. Here’s my credit card.”
Again, we’re raising adults. In the kitchen. I would say from six, seven, and up, they should be able to make just about anything in the kitchen. It might burn. It may not taste great, but you’re training them to be an adult. When they do do a good job, praise them. Makenna was three, and she’s my oldest. She could make my bed perfectly because I raised her to do it at three. The first time she did it, it wasn’t great. But the second time, it was a little better. Then the third time, she could make it perfectly.
Spring forward, she’s now 24. She’s photographed over 20 schools, she teaches babies to swim, she’s an ISR (Infant Swim Rescue) instructor. She’s a mother. She’s so capable. But we didn’t start when she was 15. We started when she was three, raising her to be, always giving them big-people jobs. Some people may say, “Whoa, there is no way a ten-year-old can do that kind of . . .”
The neat thing is, we are able to have several streams of income because we count on our children to run our business. We have a photography business. We also run two farmers’ markets. We also have an Air BNB. We also are vendors at our markets. We also have a coffee shop, and on and on and on.
The way we’re able to do this, we believe that the Bible says: “Divide your substance to seven parts, even to eight. You don’t know what evil will come upon this land” (Ecclesiastes 11:2). When it talks about that, it’s talking about diversifying. It’s talking about not having all your eggs in one basket. I know many of you might say, “Well, my husband has a job. He’s a teacher.” Well, that’s fine, but there’s no reason why you cannot raise children to have their own vison and to be entrepreneurs.
What we feel is, this is another thing that’s so crucial. Mothers, listen to me. Only do what only you can do. Do what you do best, and delegate the rest. OK? So . . .
“Do what you do best. Delegate the rest.”
When I mean that, I mean delegate everything that your children can do. That may sound like, “Wow! That leaves almost nothing!” Well, yeah.
Mothers who have children who are capable shouldn’t be mopping the floors and sweeping. Yes, we do it when they’re young because we train them. But once you’ve trained them to do it, then that allows you to be able to do the things that they can’t do.
So, what are some things that my children can’t do? Well, we don’t allow them to be on the phone. I’m the only one that has access to the internet. My boys are 17 and 15 and 14. They run grass volleyball tournaments. When they’re putting on a volleyball tournament, what is the thing they can’t do? Well, they can’t advertise online because I don’t allow them to be on the internet, so I do that for them. They don’t have phones where they can communicate with people. I’ll do that for them. They don’t drive, so I’ll do that for them.
If I need to order something, I’ll let them do the talking, but they’re using my phone to do it. Think about what are the things that you can do? You do those. But if they can do it, let them do it, because you’re training them. They’re going to be adults. Now, I’ve got a bunch of other adults in my family. Even though they may look young to the world, they’re so capable. I think that’s why we’re able to do as much as we are.
But again, I think the word that I’m thinking that’s so critical is “intentionality.” You have to be intentional as a mother. Be intentional. Who do you allow your children to hang around with? That’s another thing. You’ve got to put your children with people who you want them to be like. If they’re hanging around young people that are lazy, being on the TV all the time, playing video games all the time, that’s probably not what you want them to be.
So, don’t allow those friendships to be beyond just hanging out a little bit. You don’t want them to spend lots of time with people who you don’t want them to be like. That may mean that they’re hanging out with a lot of adults, and that’s OK. You want them to be leaders, not followers.
I feel like we’ve done that with our children. It’s interesting, they will start choosing friends who want you want them to be around, the longer you input that into them, if that makes sense. If you raise your children to be entrepreneurs, with a good work ethic, they will never be without a job.
Nancy: That’s true. Yes.
Allison: You see that a lot in our world right now. You see a lot of unemployed fathers. They’re good at a few things, but they don’t have that work ethic. I believe it’s because they didn’t get taught. They weren’t taught at a young, young, young age.
I don’t baby-talk to my children. I don’t do things for my children. Now, yes, am I a mother? Yes. It’s OK to mother your children, to nurture your children. But don’t misunderstand nurturing with babying your children. Sometimes you can misunderstand what I’m saying. We love to have fun together. I believe a family that plays together stays together.
But I really believe that a family that works together will never be without income. We’ve been very successful financially with our businesses, but we’ve allowed our children to take part in them. They have such pride in the fact that they’re making really good money. None of them have gone to college. We did college for one semester for one of our daughters but now she can make $100+ an hour doing what she’s doing with no college education.
Nancy: Oh, yes. I think a lot of homeschooling families will homeschool their children and will be watching over their education. And then, I can’t believe it, send them off to college, thinking they absolutely need it, whereas today, well, there may have been a time, years and years ago, when they would have gotten a good preparatory education for life.
But today, they’re just brainwashing them with socialism and progressivism. Of course, they’re going to come out with their brains full of these things. You look at what is happening today with the young people of our nation. They are pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality, pro-transgender. It’s all brainwashing.
Allison: I don’t even know if they’ve been researching it themselves.
Nancy: No, they haven’t! It’s just brainwashing.
Allison: Whatever the influence, it’s telling them to think that’s what they think. Interestingly, my husband has a master’s degree. I have a bachelor’s, so we got the college education. I used to think college was this neutral subject. Well, now, after seeing what I’m seeing in our world, you couldn’t convince me to send our children to college.
I was at a funeral last weekend, and I was talking to this young man. I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I’m going to college for a business degree.” I said, “Oh, wow! I bet you have a great business you’re planning on starting. What are you doing afterwards?” since he was almost finished. He said, “I have no idea.”
I just looked at him. I thought, “What are you doing? Why are you going to college to learn how to run a business?” If you want to teach your children to run a business, let them run a business! If you don’t know what that looks like, call me. I’ll be glad to help you figure out something. There are so many amazing ideas that you can help your children. I’ll just list a few.
Nancy: Before you get onto that, I’m thinking about what you said there, about if they’re interested in business, find a business. If they’re that interested in being in business, well, surely, they’ve got some idea or some vision of what they want to do.
Allison: This young man could not think of one thing.
Nancy: I know. So, he just went to college for the sake of it. But you’ve got to have a purpose. OK, you start that business, and then, oh, maybe you find you’ll need to learn a few more things. Well, then you can do an online course and learn it! You don’t actually have to go to college and waste all that time and money.
Often, that is the best way to get started into what your vision is. And then find, “Oh, wow, I do need to know some more things here.” Then, take a course in it! Do it online. You will really learn, because it’s what you need to know to be successful. Whereas, if you go to college, and you haven’t got a vision, you’re learning stuff that’s not really applying.
It’s like I’ve been thinking lately. This is a bit off the subject, and we’ll get back. But I’ve been thinking about premarital counseling. We’ve done a lot of premarital counseling, but what I’ve observed is that many times, the couple are so much in love. Really, they don’t think they need any premarital counseling. And even all the stuff you tell them, really, it’s only until they’re married and they’re beginning to work it out in their lives.
I think that some post-marital counseling would be better. They get married, and then they’re like, “Oh, help! Wow, we need some help here!” I think it’s better post . . . when they’re in the thick of it, to really know what they need. That’s with education too. To just go into college with no vision and no thought of what you’re going to do is not really going to benefit you the same. You may come out with a degree, but that doesn’t mean anything either.
I have talked to many businessmen who said that college students coming out with a degree doesn’t mean anything today to those who employ them. They’ve found that they’re lazy, and they don’t know how to work. He said, “We’d rather get a young man who’s got a desire to work, and a desire to be successful, and teach him from scratch. He does so much better.”
Allison: I think it’s so much more productive with our money and time. This is something we recently discovered. Really, it’s been a neat connection with the Above Rubies families. We have had many, I would say, probably four different people come stay with us, families sending their young people to come stay with us, to learn the trade of photography, to learn the trade of running a coffee shop, to learn how to run a farmer’s market, to learn how to run a big family.
These are other amazing families. But what they don’t do well, they’ve found that we do well. So, they send their young people to us. Well, what a brilliant idea! You find a family that does a trade. Well, guess what? You send your son who wants to learn that trade to go live with them. Go stay with them for a month. Work for them for free so that they can learn that trade.
I’m thinking about Cedar. Cedar, your grandson, is married to my Halle. If you really look at his schooling, his homeschooling, you would say, “Wow! He probably didn’t finish some great huge curriculum.”
But let me tell you, I just hired Cedar to remodel my house. We did a $40,000 remodel of my house. I paid Cedar to do it all. I paid him really well to do it all. But he did everything with excellence. He had never been a day in his life to college. Never been a day in his life to a school to learn how to tile and build things. He did such an excellent job and he made excellent money.
Not only was he able to make good money, and remodel my house, but then, I let my boys, instead of doing school for three weeks (sitting down, learning from books and doing math problem), they worked for Cedar for three weeks. Oh, they worked, and they learned, and they learned, and they worked. They did math. They did science.
They learned the school of work ethic because he had them up early. He had them figuring up supply lists. Then they had to go shopping for it. Then they had to build the design and come up with plans.
My Asher went. He’s 15. He went and worked with Cedar. They built an outdoor bathroom for a family, making $65 an hour. For a 15-year-old, and a 20-year-old, that’s decent money, right? It’s a good starting income, $65 an hour. But they didn’t get a degree for that.
Nancy: You said something else. You said he did that in three weeks, remodeled your house.
Allison: Remodeled my house in three weeks.
Nancy: If you had hired people, it would not have been done in three weeks!
Allison: No. We have a 3400-square-foot house. They emptied every single room, bedroom, bathroom. Retiled. We did porcelain tiles throughout the whole house. Repainted everything. Did batten boards, redid my fireplace, painted all my furniture and cabinets.
Nancy: We can’t wait to come and see it!
Allison: Oh, it’s amazing! It’s gorgeous! White walls, black cabinets, solid wood flooring with porcelain tile that looks like wood. It’s gorgeous! Cedar didn’t go to school to learn this. He came up with it, because his father and mother taught him to work when he was three. Does that make sense?
Nancy: Yes. Yes.
Allison: So, if you’re raising adults, it’s so beautiful . . .
Nancy: Sam . . . they didn’t have time to do a lot of schooling. But because from little young men, Sam would give them the list of what had to be done that day. When he got home, it had to be done! It was all amazing stuff! It was real men’s stuff . . . building, they had to work it out.
Allison: But now Halle, as a wife, is benefiting from the fruit of their labor. Sam and Serene poured time. They didn’t maybe sit down with a book and teach him how to diagram a sentence, but they taught him how to work. How to when you say you’re going to do something, you do it! Not only does he have a good work ethic, but he also teaches work.
When we’re working, a lot of times when you’re working for a customer, you can cut corners. You can do shoddy work because most times they’re not going to know everything. Well, guess what? You can tell with Cedar and my boys; they’ve been taught how to work unto the Lord.
My husband used to be a painter, and I used to say, “Why are you worried about the little details? Your customer’s never going to see it. Just hurry up, and get it done!” He said, “Allison, I’m not working for that customer. I work because I do everything . . . whether you’re eating or drinking, do everything for the glory of the Lord.”
That’s what we’ve got to teach our children. If you’re out there and you’re struggling with, “Oh, did I get all my curriculum in? I feel like I’m always behind!” You know what? Teach them how to work and they will never be without a job. That all goes back into raising adults and being intentional. Do things as a family. Come up with a project.
I really think it’s a neat idea to send your children to other people’s families when they’re older, maybe in their teens. Spend a month with them. Find someone who you can say, “Oh, I’d love to have my children learn how to farm. Well, we don’t have a farm.” So, send them off to someone. That’s better than going off to college.
Nancy: Oh, yes. Now, you also said you run two farmers’ markets. But, OK, you have people who come to you to learn how to do it. But where did you learn how to do it? You just suddenly thought of the idea?
Allison: I do. I do. I have lots of ideas in my head. I’ve always been a . . . Colin calls me a “mover and a shaker.” I try not to sit and dream and think of things. I think of an idea, and then I make it happen.
Nancy: Yes! My favorite saying: “Things don’t just happen. You have to make them happen!”
Allison: Yes, yes! And so, we had the idea. We wanted our children to be able to sell things. Well, there wasn’t really a good, healthy environment for that. There is a farmers’ market in our town, but it’s run by the city. It’s very liberal. They allow products that I would never want my children to even be around. Instead of coming up with excuses, “Oh, well, we don’t have that so you’re not going to be able to sell anything.”
I made it up. We started a farmer’s market in our town. Now we have over 50 to 60 vendors every single Saturday. We run two. We do a Thursday night and a Saturday morning. It’s a great opportunity for our children to sell their plants, their produce, their eggs, their kefir. We sell a little bit of everything.
But what a great idea! You want to raise a businesswoman and a businessman? Allow them to be part of a farmer’s market. Have a table set up and selling. It’s communicating. My nine-year-old can communicate with an adult better than most adults.
Nancy: What’s she selling?
Allison: Oh! Well, she’ll sell kefir. She’ll sell eggs. She’s sold we did caramel apples the other day. We got apples from our Mennonite friends. Then we made healthy caramel apples. She sold out of them. It was incredible! She sold them for $6 apiece.
Nancy: What?
Allison: $6 for one caramel apple. I don’t even care if she sells one. The experience she’s getting, to get to speak and talk to an adult, look them in the eye. How many young people, children, cannot look an adult in the eye? Shake their hand? Be confident?
“What are you selling?”
“I’m selling caramel apples.”
“Well, tell me about your apples.”
“They’re tree ripened. They don’t have pesticides on them. These are the ingredients we put in them.”
It’s an incredible thing.
Nancy: When she sells kefir, she’ll explain all about it, all the benefits.
Allison: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nancy: Does she tell them the story about you?
Allison: Yes, yes! When I was in Israel, I got giardia which was not fun at all. For 18 months, I had awful, terrible symptoms from diarrhea, just awful, awful stuff. Kefir was what solved my problems.
Nancy: After spending thousands on remedies.
Allison: Oh, thousands of dollars, yes! I did a prescription that was $2,000, and it didn’t even touch the giardia. But kefir knocked it out. Women, ladies, older ladies, they’ll come up and say, “What’s kefir?”
And my nine-year-old will sit there and say, “Well, my mother had diarrhea for 18 months, and it got rid of it!” Their mouths are like, “What??” It’s hilarious! But she’ll sit there and sell a $10 jar of kefir to them. They’ll say, “Oh, I have terrible gut issues,” and they’ll buy the kefir.
It’s setting them up for success. Again, I only do what only I can do. So, what do I do? I drive her there. I drive her to the store to get the supplies. I help her get all of her things. But then she does it all herself. I’m not going to package up the kefir. Why? Because my nine-year-old can do it herself.
Nancy: Yes! Amen. Well, time has gone.
Allison: Oh, my goodness. Such a fun subject!
Nancy:
“Lord, we thank You so much that we can share about these practical issues of life together. Lord, we pray for every mother, wife, child listening. We pray Your blessing on them. We pray, Lord, that these seeds of truth will ignite in their hearts and open ideas of creativity, Lord, what they can do for their precious children.
“Lord, give each one a vision, that they are raising, Lord, adults. Children who are going to one day be fathers and mothers, and young men who will be providers of the home. Help us to even be thinking about these things now, to prepare them, Lord, that we will be faithful preparers of our children for life, and of course, eternity, which is the greatest of all. In the Name of Jesus, amen.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Transcribed by Darlene Norris
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“LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell”
DON’T KEEP THE BLESSINGS TO YOURSELF.
IT IS ENCOURAGING FOR ALL WIVES AND MOTHERS.