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The brain-changing benefits of exercise. After watching this, your brain will not be the same. Education. Books of the Bible At-a-Glance Printables — Teach Sunday School. The Bible can be overwhelming.

Books of the Bible At-a-Glance Printables — Teach Sunday School

There are 66 books, written by over 40 different authors. It's easy to see how children (& adults!) Get confused when studying the different characters, stories, and teachings of the Bible... Imagine picking up one of Shakespeare's books and trying to read page 200, then page 10, then page 150... It wouldn't make any sense! Yet, this is what we do with the Bible! Abraham one day, David the next, and Jesus the following week. The two things missing from most Bible lessons are PLACEMENT & CONTEXT. Our Books of the Bible Reference Sheets were designed to provide context to each of the 66 books of the Bible. Technology for Your School District. 13 Ways You Can Equip Parents to Lead Their Children Spiritually. Here are 13 easy ways you can equip parents to lead their children spiritually at home, every day, right now.

13 Ways You Can Equip Parents to Lead Their Children Spiritually

Parents need simple, quick faith-builders that’ll make an impact on their children. You can give parents the tools and the time to foster spirituality in their children’s lives by passing on these 13 easy methods that put Jesus in the forefront. 1. Get the Word Out. Leading Your Child to Christ - Focus on the Family. Maybe your child knows several Bible stories by heart, or maybe he is just now learning basic truths of Scripture.

Leading Your Child to Christ - Focus on the Family

Whatever your child’s level of biblical literacy, establishing a core understanding of God’s full plan for humanity — how these stories and truths are all linked together — is the first step. That big story starts in the garden. For our kids to truly understand Jesus’ sacrifice, they must recognize that God’s loving relationship with humankind is drastically altered by the presence of our sin. Teach your children that God created a beautiful world and then made humans in His image. Faith in our Families Research booklet. How to spiritually equip your children as they head back to school. The moment deeply impacted Danny, a licensed clinical social worker with his own practice and executive director of parenting and youth at Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs.

How to spiritually equip your children as they head back to school

Despite all his training and experience, he truly realized then how important it is to spiritually equip his children. “Our teaching and impact matters,” he says. “Our children are wanting something. They’re watching. 4 Ways To Equip Your Kids With A Biblical Worldview – Called To Mothering. A. Major Characteristics of Hebrew Poetry: Parallelism - Asbury Bible Commentary.

Children in UK least happy they have been in a decade, says report. Childhood happiness has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, with more than 200,000 children unhappy with their lives, according to a report.

Children in UK least happy they have been in a decade, says report

For the first time since it was launched in 2009-10, the annual Good Childhood report found overall contentment among 10- to 15-year-olds has dipped below eight on a scale of one to 10. It now stands at 7.89 on average, down from a high of 8.21 in 2011, at a time when adult wellbeing is improving. Almost 5% of those surveyed reported happiness scores below five out of 10, suggesting about 219,000 children in the UK are unhappy. The Children’s Society, which conducted the research, said the decline in childhood happiness was a national scandal. The charity called on Boris Johnson to move the issue to the top of his agenda and introduce a national measurement of children’s wellbeing. The report is based on an annual survey of about 2,400 households and a longitudinal study involving 40,000 households.

How to Ask Great Questions. Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart in a tense negotiation.

How to Ask Great Questions

Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider how their own answers to questions could make conversations more productive. That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value in organizations: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and performance improvement, it builds rapport and trust among team members.

And it can mitigate business risk by uncovering unforeseen pitfalls and hazards. For some people, questioning comes easily. Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It. - Harvard Business Review - Pocket. Photo by cintascotch/Getty Images Many people mistakenly believe that the ability to learn is a matter of intelligence.

Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It. - Harvard Business Review - Pocket

For them, learning is an immutable trait like eye color, simply luck of the genetic draw. Billionaire Warren Buffett to MBA students: This is the key to success. At 88, Warren Buffett has a lot of wisdom — and sharing it with students is one of the many wonderful things he’s known for.

Billionaire Warren Buffett to MBA students: This is the key to success

One lesson the Berkshire Hathaway CEO loves to teach is the importance of developing good personal qualities at a young age. Establishing good habits — even the little ones, like saying “please” and “thank you” — is a major key to success, he told Yahoo Finance’s editor-in-chief last year.