How to Stop the Complaining in Your Home
Do your kids complain a lot? They have so much, but are always looking at what they don’t have? Or looking at what their friends have?
Want to know one thing you can do every day that will help your kids learn not to complain?
Ready for it? We CELEBRATE!
Want to know a great definition of celebration? Paying attention and calling attention to the goodness of God in my life. It’s not that we ignore problems. But what if we made a habit of calling out the goodness of God around us?
Wow! We are children of the King! We are a royal priesthood, loved for and cared for by our Creator!
Isn’t it great that we get to have food on the table and a house to live in?
Wait a minute! Stop! Can you see that we are breathing? Praise God that He gives us a new breath every few seconds!
I am so grateful that you can run and play and wrestle with me and talk to me.
Celebration is the opposite of grumbling and complaining. When we learn to celebrate, we push out grumbling and complaining in our lives. The more we celebrate in the easy times, the easier it is to celebrate in the hard times. For example, in basketball we do drills when no one is guarding us so we can train our minds and bodies to execute the right move in the heat of the game when someone is guarding us, and the pressure is on.
We do the same with celebration. We teach our kids to celebrate instead of complain by making celebration a normal part of our lives. Then when times get tough, we still call out the goodness of God. It’s just what we do as a family. We believe in and call out the goodness of God.
And remember, parents, your example is more important than your instruction. You can tell your kids not to complain all day, but if you show them the opposite of complaining by celebrating, they will want to follow your example and stop complaining!
