{"id":805,"date":"2014-12-02T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T00:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/?page_id=805"},"modified":"2015-07-09T09:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:51:38","slug":"precious-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happyhomeschooling.com\/site\/precious-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Precious Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"emily_elizabeth_closeup\"Aren’t babies the greatest? They don’t give a smidgen of care to what you dress them up in. It can be on inside-out and backwards, and they don’t complain. They don’t mind if their hair isn’t combed just so. They aren’t self-conscious if they burp. Tummy gurgling in public doesn’t bother them a bit. They think they are wonderful! And they are right, too.<\/p>\n

What happens between baby days and adulthood that makes a person think less of their precious body? We live in a culture that teaches the word “gross” in connection with body functions.<\/strong> I’m afraid we train our children that their body is not such a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n

Knowing that our bodies are a precious gift from God, I started my own one-woman campaign when I was a young mother. I decided that these words would never be used to describe one’s body in my home:<\/p>\n

gross or gross-out
\npee-ew
\nstinky
\nfilthy
\ndirty
\nnasty
\nyucky
\nsnotty<\/em><\/p>\n

(sorry for the bad words!)<\/p>\n

Whenever changing my baby’s diaper, I tried to smile and make comment to my baby on the loveliness and wonder of his\/her precious body.<\/strong> What do we teach by frowning and saying, “Yuck! Pee-ew!”? No wonder teenagers think nothing is quite right about their bodies!<\/p>\n

Precious, precious body.<\/em> Enjoy it, take care of it, speak kind words about it, love it completely! <\/strong>It is God’s gift to you.
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\nGod’s’ Will for My Body
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