breakfast is a multidisciplinary contact sporting event

They never told me in "child raising 101" that breakfast was a multidisciplinary contact sporting event:
 Sit-still-in-your-seat-please-wresting,  
how-much-food-can-you-place-in-your-mouth-and-still-breath-alon,  
facial-contorting-for-least-favorite foods
...just a few that my kids medal at regularly

Some how we still manage to get more food in than on so we call that a win.  We teach them to "eat a rainbow" like they learn in school so they can have a balanced diet. Some things go over well, some not so much but we do our best. We supplement with a chewable multivitamin  and to make it all more fun we have a battery powered blue light that each person gets to place on their heads after they eat what they need too.

We then all sing "urgent, urgent, urgent, food emergency"

( True story, I have no pride)..sorry to my wife for telling family secrets.

But there is one more thing that we make sure gets into our kids before they walk out the door. It is far more important than vitamins, a food rainbow, and singing a Foreigner re-mix sample. 

What? 

God's Word. 

We place the Word of God into them and us.  Our time looking at God's word does not take a super long time but its super good.  We have a great book written my Sally Lloyd-Jones and illustrated by Jago called "Thoughts to Make your Heart Sing".  

We all sit together. Mom. Dad, and the kids. We model our priorities.

Today's story was about a homing pigeon named Winkie who became a hero during WWII. After the plane she was in went down in the sea she flew 129 miles back home, thus alerting the base that the crew was lost. She got help for those who could not save themselves. She knew the way home. 

The book tells us this is our story:

How ever far away they are, 

birds can find their way home again 

and again and again. 

But not God's children-

God's children aren't homesick for him.

 God is our true home. 

Away from him, we are are lost

Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free

Isaiah 44:22

 

Yes mornings are nuts. 

We worry about matched clothes, brushed teeth, combed hair, homework, lunches, and a million other things. ahhhhhh! 

Shouldn't  we put as much worry, 

energy, and focus into teaching our kids by example the most import things? 

Let's model our priorities.

If we don't teach them what is most important the rest of the world is more that willing and ready to do so. 

One last word of caution:

Don't feel guilty if you don't do this now. You can even be hones and tell your kids you have let things get out of alignment and today is the day to shift that.  Just start. Today.  

Take small bites. But start. 

Please. 

One verse at a time. 

Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. 

Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children.

 Talk about them wherever you are, 

sitting at home or walking in the street; 

talk about them from the time you get up in the morning 

to when you fall into bed at night. 

Deuteronomy 6:7 (Message translation)