Pampering yourself never felt so good...and so right!
Slip
into... "the Body Shop's latest line of lotions and scrubs, infused
with succulent
strawberry seed oil. The Body Polish contains
honey from tropical forests in Zambia, which helps ensure revenue
for the local beekeepers. And the Body Butter is packed with rich
cocoa butter sourced from a collective of farmers in Ghana, who earn
fair prices for their beans every time you purchase a tub..." You'll
feel great inside and out!
(Quote from "O", Oprah Magazine)
Where
can you find these natural, high quality products from
a company with
real values?
Just ask me!
Tiffany Land
The Body Shop Consultant
I
enjoy representing a company that is firmly grounded in 5 core
values: against animal testing, support community trade, activate
self esteem, defend human rights, and protect our planet. Not to mention
their fabulous products and high quality.
If you would like to
learn more about our products or how to become a consultant for half
the price, please contact me at
tiffanypaigeland@yahoo.com or
visit my website
www.thebodyshopathome.com where you can view all
of our products and order online directly from me!!!
If you have ever worked outside of the home,
you know that there is a "chain of command" to be followed. Usually
it is something like a CEO at the top, District and Regional Managers
and then employees.
As homeschoolers, what should our "chain of command"
be? I look at it this way:
CEO - God
Regional Manager - Me
Employees -
Children
The problem occurs when I am trying to be all of these
at the same time.
I am not the ultimate authority. God
is! And when I try to be the ultimate authority I fall flat on my
face. The job is too big for me to do. I do not have the necessary
qualifications. The qualifications for the job of CEO Savior is someone
who is capable of performing miracles, omnipresent, omniscient, was
crucified on the cross, has been raised from the dead, currently sits
at the right hand of God, savior of the world.
No matter how much I
think I know it all, can see it all, and am capable of performing
minor miracles - I am not God. Only one qualifies for that job and
I’m not it.
Secondly, I am not an employee of my children.
I do not work for them and I am not hired by them. They do not pay
me to drive them around. They do not pay for their food, beds or the
roof above their head. They do not have the right to Legos, littlest
pet shop, neopets, computers, ice cream and bicycles. They have these
things because I desire to give them good gifts but it is not a right
or an obligation on my part. Because I am not an employee, demands
from my children easily become requests or suggestions.
So what job
am I supposed to do? What job am I made for? Manager!
Paul tells the young widows in 1 Timothy 5:14 "So I counsel younger
widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give
the enemy no opportunity for slander." Or what about the Proverbs
31 woman "She watches over the affairs of her household and does not
eat the bread of idleness." So once again, I am telling you that you
are in a position of management. I am convinced that the struggles
that homeschoolers face with time management arise from the fact that
they do not understand their positions as Managers.
Let’s look
at this acronym that I made up, just for you, as a Homeschooling Manager:
MANAGEMENT
M
- Measure accurately
The first problem that I see is the inaccurate
measurement of time. H. Jackson Brown said "Don't say you don't have
enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that
were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa,
Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." You even
have the same amount of time that Jesus had when he was on earth.
So why are we always so "out of time."
I think it is for two reasons.
#1 Because we wear the "I’m so busy" badge like it’s an honor. Like
we earned it in Girl Scouts and want everyone to see it. Could you
imagine if you were standing on the playground at one of our playdates
with a group of moms and the subject came around to being busy and
a mom said "Not me! I pretty much stayed home all day yesterday and
didn’t do anything of any real significance." Most of us wouldn’t
know what to say to her. It’s because in our society we think it is
important to be busy.
