by Colette Potts | Nov 30, 2018 | advent, children, empathy, family, love, parenting
A basic principle of Love First: Children can relieve the suffering of others. Use this Advent season to continue – or start – to develop a culture of empathy and compassion in your family. Love First is providing you with a FREE printable 25 days of Love...
by Colette Potts | Nov 9, 2018 | children, death, empathy, Uncategorized
In the wake of the most recent mass shooting, this time at a nightclub in Thousand Oaks, California, I find myself broken hearted. Again. With no time to heal since the last massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue. Truthfully, I have not been right since Sandy Hook,...
by Colette Potts | Nov 2, 2018 | children, courage, life purpose, parenting, religion
We’ve been talking a lot about courage in our Sunday school program. Like what it is, what it looks like, and why it’s important. When I asked the children to make a poster with an example of courage, a couple were totally stumped. To those children, I said: “How...
by Colette Potts | Oct 8, 2018 | children, empathy, parenting, religion
Like most people, God has always been ‘he’ in our house. It’s just what we learned, what feels comfortable, and how we’ve always done it. Every once and awhile we give God the ‘it’ pronoun, but we easily slip back into the male pronoun because….well, just because. But...
by Colette Potts | Sep 8, 2018 | children, death, empathy, parenting, religion
If you’ve ever spent any time with our family, you might already know this: the Potts kids are super comfortable talking about death. Unsettlingly so, if you ask me. Sam routinely hands me pictures he’s drawn, telling me, “You can keep this. “Until you’re dead.”...
