Magic moments with our daughters

Last week I had a meeting in a friend's house. I had to bring Jivan, our toddler, along. And the older sisters wanted to go with us too. So I was glad that they can baby-sit our young explorer as I had my meeting. While I was deep into the meeting I got distracted when the sisters were arguing over showing a cartoon show to their brother as I can hear their voices getting louder. One of them was also responding to me with rude remarks.

That night before going to bed I called their attention. The correction/discipline session turned into hours of mom to daughters talk and I was even amused that in the course of our discussion it seemed like an integrated homeschool lesson. All throughout our talk we covered different subjects: 

• Bible (I would quote the Scriptures and explain to them what each means and just allowed the sharpness of God's word to convict their hearts which later led into confession of sins and repentance as they prayed in the end);
• English (whenever I mentioned words, I had to simplify it, or sometimes, Issa would explain the meaning to Abbie);
• Filipino (some English words needed to be translated to Filipino and defined so they can understand better. Sometimes, it was elaborated with another story or illustration);
• Science (at some point we touched on Astronomy. But I forgot which part in the correction in came :));
• History/Civics (in the course of illustrating to them I needed to tell stories from our childhood which we all found very funny that we were all laughing. This was towards the part that they already understood my points of correction. The stories also showed them how families in the province during our time lived);
• Character (I had Abbie review a portion from her Character book: Character First so she will remember what gentleness entails).

We ended with them praying to God and confessing their sin, repenting. Then I prayed for them too. We were actually too engrossed into talking that we did not notice it was more than an hour already.

I thank God for opportunities to teach and train our children in moments like these.