Leaving young girls at home alone for 3 days?

Dear Mom,

My husband’s uncle, Mike, passed away this week. It was stage IV cancer – only diagnosed a year and a half ago. The funeral is in a few weeks. Although I didn’t see Mike often, he is the man who presided over our wedding. We know his wife and his children – the youngest is still in high school.

I know my husband Tony thought a lot of him and would like us both to go to the funeral which will be several states away. Tony thinks that is it okay to leave my two daughters home alone for the two nights and three days that we will be gone. Ashley will be 14 in just two months, but is she old enough to be home alone for so long? Sarah is 11. Both girls are very well behaved and follow the rules. We have neighbors who will check in on them regularly and be there if they need anything.

I still can’t help but feel that the girls are too young to be without us for so long. What do you think? How young is too young to be home alone?

A cautious mom,

I am so sorry for your loss and for the family’s loss

I can’t help but feel that It is way too risky to leave these two young girls at home alone. It is not a matter of if they are well behaved or not, it is a matter of if some kind of accident or emergency comes up. If they get sick or run a fever they will need the help of an adult that is there with them. They are too young to know what to do in an emergency situation or if one of them get sick. 

There needs to be an adult staying with them. You are right to feel like they are too young to be left home alone for so long a period of time

Mom.

Lynn Hardy is one of five kids – one of my twins. In her book Angels Believe in You she mentions much of the advice I have given her concerning her walk with God. She felt that others might have questions about God or other issues which I might be able to help with: Ask Mom was created for this purpose.

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HAVING A RIGHTEOUS CONSCIOUS

This is a lesson written by Brother Andy... I thought you might like this one. It is good to be righteous ie in right standing with God.  We all have choices to make every day to either be righteous or walk on the wrong side. I hope you all enjoy this lesson as much as I did.                                                                                

HAVING A RIGHTEOUS CONSCIOUS

2^ND Timothy 2: 19…¹⁹ Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

When we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, and the finished work of the cross, we become a new creation. At that moment that we accept Jesus, the Holy Spirit seals this new spirit, or new creation, and lives or dwells in us.

The Holy Spirit reveals Gods wisdom, to our spirit, keeping us on the path of righteousness. We are heirs to the kingdom of God and no devil in hell can take this away from you.

John 10: 27-30… ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:²⁸ And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.²⁹ My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.³⁰ I and my Father are one.

No one can take you out of Jesus’ hand, and even if they could, they can’t take you out of the Fathers hand… Jesus and the Father are as one…

Hebrews 13: 5… ⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Jesus says, I will never leave you or forsake you… and by no means will I ever forsake you, we must believe that.

Finding a Church Home

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 I've raised 5 children and been married for almost 20 years. Any questions are welcome. Just like with my kids, I will give you honest feedback.


My Husband I worked as Evangelist for a while and visited many different Churches. It was very interesting to see how each church operated, and to teach Gods word wherever we went. We loved all the people we met. We found that for the most part, people are the same everywhere.

We had the habit of going to this one church when we didn’t have any engagements. It became familiar to us. We both, Andy and I enjoyed the people and the pastor’s messages. The people became fond of us and after a year or so it became clear to us that our path was about to change.

The pastor needed our support and we decided to join the church we had learned to love. We were greeted with open arms by this loving church. We have not done any more evangelizing and are there full time now.

Exodus: Gods and Kings - 2014 Movie

Exodus: God and Kings

2014 Movie

I went to see the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” this week. I was expecting that there would probably be some Hollywood injected into the movie, but I was in no way expecting it to be all Hollywood. Still it was not as bad as Noah. To see a review on Noah CLICK HERE.

I am not only disappointed but amazed at how much of the story of what God did for Moses and the Hebrew children was left out:

• It started out that Miriam brought the boy to the Pharaohs daughter, they didn’t hint at the fact that Moses had been placed in a basket and floated down the river.
• Instead of Moses fleeing from Pharaoh like it says in Exodus 2:15 they depicted that Moses was banished.
• God did not speak to Moses from a flaming bush; they had a young boy as God speaking face to face with Moses.
• The water in the river was bloody by means of crocodiles attacking and making the bloody water. In Exodus 4:9 says it shall become blood after it is drawn from the river.
• In Exodus 4:15 it speaks of Aaron being there with Moses to speak for him, this did not happen
  
  in the movie.
• When the tablets were made, Moses was chiseling them out himself – no mention of God helping.
• In general all the things that God did as Moses took the Hebrews into the desert were left out. The pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire to give them light by night, as it says in Exodus 13: 21.
• There was so very much that was so wrong about the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. It is too much to mention on this blog.

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 I've raised 5 children and been married for almost 20 years. Any questions are welcome. Just like with my kids, I will give you honest feedback.



Dear Mom,

Help! Am I being too hard on my kids?

Here’s what happened:

On Monday I grounded my daughter Sarah (age 11) from all electronics for two days because she didn’t do what I said: Instead of getting ready for soccer she played on her guitar which made both her and her sister late for practice.

Thursday Sarah gave me a permission form a choir performance at the Saint Luke’s Children’s Hospital on Saturday. I signed the sheet and asked her to keep the upper portion for me so that I would know where to go.

Saturday rolled around. Sarah had a early soccer game. When we returned home she began getting ready for the choir recital. I asked her for the form. She asked, “Can’t you call Mackenzie's mom and find out where to go?”

“Sarah, I told you to keep the top portion of that sheet for me.” I replied, “If you don’t have it, then you will miss the performance.”

Sarah panicked. She dug through all the papers in her backpack – no form. Again she pleaded, “I know I kept it... Can’t you just call Mac’s mom?”

“No, I can’t. You must learn to do what you are told. If you don’t have the information, you won’t be going to sing with your choir.”

Sarah eventually found the paper and we barely made it to the performance on time. My husband, Tony, was supportive of my actions... but was this too harsh? It is Christmas and this is a very special thing Sarah wanted to do...

Thanks!

Lynn,

As parents it is sometimes hard to discipline. The discipline should always be used as a way to teach our children. As our children grow they need to learn how to be responsible. Responsibilities should start out being easy when they are young. As they get older the responsibilities will be more important. Some people are just naturally more responsible, they are the easy kids to teach. The discipline should match the importance or the lack of co-operation by the child.

I think your discipline matched the need at the time and it did seem to work. She found her paper and saved herself. I would say good lesson teaching.

Keep reading the word and following the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Mom

Lynn Hardy is one of my five kids – one of my twins. In her book Angels Believe in You: The Journey that Led to Heaven and Back Again
she mentions much of the advice I have given her concerning her walk with God. She felt that others might have questions about God or other issues which I might be able to help with: Ask Mom was created for this purpose.

Being Prayed for in a Spirit Led Church

Dear Mom, My family has recently began attending a church that is more Spirit let. People speak in tongues and are often healed when they are prayed for by the pastor or one of the elders. I have wanted to return to this type of church for many years and the opportunity recently arose, praise God!

One of the women at the church invited me to her home to worship: a small group of women from our church meet there every Thursday. The hostess, lets call her Hayden,  played songs on the TV where the words were displayed. Five of us women sang along and worshiped the Lord.

 I was very much enjoying the presence of the Lord when Hayden came over to

me and began praying for me. Well, it was not so much a prayer as a rebuke. I’ve been a Christian for many years and I love correction from God for the Bible says, “God corrects those He loves.” (Prov. 3:12) However, in this case, the correction was something that God has dealt with me about several years ago.