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Help With Your Mother's Rule
Help With Your Mother's Rule is a forum for women who want trouble-shooting
help with their Mother's Rules or about any aspect of the 5 Ps of
the married vocation.
Ask
Holly: This blog is composed of your questions.Contact me at the address listed on Holly's Notebook page
and I will post questions and answers. Please share your unique ideas as well. The more ideas and experience we share,
the more successful every mother will be in designing her own unique
Mother's Rule.
Holly Pierlot
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Doing Group Catechism as a Family
Dear Holly,
I am familiar with the Apostolate of Family Consecrated in the Truth and I like the idea of using just one textbook for my children's catechism. Are you using their appropiate grade levels for each child while you use your family textbook? How are you doing it with several children? Usually, someone told me most homeschoolers just take the middle level workbook (ex: 6 yrs old and 8 yr old use level 2 workbook instead of level 1 and level 3) and order how ever many so everyone is on the same page. I just want to have a Religion class together instead of having to read and teach individual classes. I am thinking to about just putting them in the parish Sunday school. But then again I love doing that with them because it teaches ME So much!!! How do you use the Apostolate of Family Consecration program?Labels: 4th P Parent, Homeschooling
posted by Holly at 11:42 AM
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Possible Pregnant Rule?
Dear Holly,
At a Catholic Homeschooling forum that I belong too, the subject of MROL has come up. A lot of good stuff of course, but I'm also hearing about how it's nearly impossible to have a rule when you are pregnant and have small children. I didn't try to set up a rule when my kids were infants, but I'm thinking it would have been a help. Maybe I'm just more relaxed about it then most people...I use my rule as a guide line, but if for some reason I can't get to everything then that's the way it is and I just go on with life. Do you have any recommendations for pregnant women and moms of small children that I can share with this group?Labels: 4th P Parent, About a Rule of Life
posted by Holly at 8:16 AM
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Kids & Independant Chores
Dear Holly,
After reading your inspiring book, I had the opportunity to hear you speak in Milwaukee this spring. Thank you for sharing your advice and experience.
I am wondering what tips you have for motivating young ones to do work on their own without being told. I have 5 children under 7 and find myself having to tell them over and over to do the things they are used to doing each day . . . brush teeth, wash face, etc. I have not instituted chore charts yet which may help as a visual for me to show them rather than talking so much. But I am wondering from you experience, what have you found helpful? Also, how do you construct your charts? Are they simply handwritten or done on the computer where they can be modified or some other form?Labels: 4th P Parent, 5th P Provider
posted by Holly at 5:39 PM
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Single Moms
Dear Holly,
I recently began reading A Mother's Rule of Life and it seems to be exactly what the doctor ordered. My catch is this - I am a single mom and wonder how this will hinder my efforts to implement the rule because I have to leave out the third P. I have been a single mom all along and over time converted back to my Catholic faith. All the Catholic parenting websites have advice for married couples, but none for faithful and (now) orthodox single mums. I look around and think where do I fit in?! Then I found your book and was so excited. It just makes so much sense and resonated in my soul! Have you had any other single moms contact you with regards to establising a rule of life? Has anyone been able to successfully implement it? I'm wondering if I can really do it. Any pointers or guidance you can provide would be greatly appreciated.Labels: About a Rule of Life
posted by Holly at 5:32 PM
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Using the Labels
I have finished labelling all my posts! :-) Please use them to discover posts on all the 5 Ps and Homeschooling. If you are interested in only the posts on parenting, for example, click the label on one of the 4th P posts and all the labeled parenting posts will show up on one page. The labels are:
About a Rule of LIfe
1st P Prayer
2nd P Person
3rd P Partner
4th P Parent
5th P Provider
Homeschooling
Miscellaneous
posted by Holly at 9:00 AM
On Modest Dressing for Mom...
Dear Holly,
I am currently in RCIA (to be received fully into the church in a couple of months), in a rather liberal church - more so than I had realized when I started my classes. As a protestant, I was exposed to and studies in depth teachings about modest dress / dresses only / head coverings. Then, as I began the transistion to the Catholic church, I had the impression that all that 'super modesty stuff' was just from those 'protestant ultraconservatives'. After all, I have seen all manner of attire going to Mass. Maybe not quite swimsuits, but certainly some very short skirts/shorts, rather revealing cleavage, etc. Even many of those serving as EM's don't dress up. Therefore, I have had no problem wearing shorts and jeans as my regular attire, including jeans to Mass.
Lately, however, with an eight year daughter beginning to have a definite interest in clothes, the Lord has been convicting me of the need evaluate my wardrobe. In doing some research I was amazed to find out that the Church really has discussed modesty - quite a bit actually - in some of the earlier writings. I guess nowadays there are more pressing matters, I don't know. However, not that long ago the Church definitely promoted modest and feminine dress for women. St. Padre Pio wouldn't give absolution to women wearing pants or an immodest dress, according to www.catholicplanet.com in an article about women's dress. This website strongly expresses the idea that women should generally wear dresses and skirts as a matter of routine, based on Scripture, and also discusses head coverings. This site, along with a couple of others I have looked at, do not seem to look at dresses as simply a "cultural thing" but a thing based on Scriptural teachings.
What is your opinion of this matter of dress? While I fully admit to being more comfortable in shorts and jeans, I don't want to be dressing in a matter that the Church would not accept as appropriate. Certainly I don't want to model inappropriate dress in front of my children! Please understand - I never wear cleavage showing outfits or short skirts anyhow. But, shorts that show thighs, or jeans - on a regular basis. Some would say that I am being immodest, which is quite painful to hear. However, if I were to wear the shapeless long long jumpers worn by some my hubby would have a fit. I tried it once...... his opinion was clear shall we say........Labels: 2nd P Person, 4th P Parent
posted by Holly at 10:00 AM
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