I was first introduced to the Kids Flag Page kit back in November when I attended the Relevant conference. One of my mothering goals this year, is to “Know the Heart of My Children”. This largely came about after my daughter and I sat down and did the exercises in the Kids Flag Page kit. Honestly, I really thought I knew my children well. I do know them, but I realized I didn’t have a very good grasp on what motivates them, what drives them, what makes them unique.
In early December, I sat down with my 5 year old daughter and we played the Kids Flag Page kit games, I read the accompanying book and we talked a lot during our new Girl Talk sessions. From her results, I was able to get information on not only what motivated her, but also how to avoid possible pitfalls or shortcomings in her personality styles. I was excited to learn that all the mentions she had been making about wanting to play an instrument music, her hunger for crafts and her desire to play violin were all part of what makes her thrive as an individual.
With what I learned from my findings about her using the Kids Flag Page kit, I changed my homeschool style and rented her a violin to begin lessons last week. It has been a true blessing to watch her eyes light up when she practices her violin, or to see the excitement she gets from creating new art forms with her box of crafts. Creativity and music are at the heart of what drives her and gives her joy. I feel so blessed and equipped to lead her into life. Without this tool, I would have continued to teach and guide her in what motivates “me”, what comes naturally to me. But, with this new equipping, I am moving out of my comfort zone and learning new methods and ways to encourage her into womanhood.
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GIVEAWAY DETAILS
Family Matters is offering a Kids Flag Page to one randomly selected winner. Winners will be announced on Tuesday, January 18, 2011.
The Kids Flag Page is a fun way for moms and dads to interact with their kids and truly discover the heart of each child—who God created them to be. When you follow the simple, step-by-step instructions to complete your child’s Flag Page and read the information in the accompanying book, you will:
- Discover the way God uniquely hardwired your children individually and how to best relate to them.
- Find the six key things that motivate your child
- Find out what your children love most about life.
- Connect to the heart of your child.
- Learn the do’s and don’ts of how to motivate, encourage, discipline and help each child succeed in life.
- Learn how to raise your kids in the power of God’s grace.
- Discover how to bring the best out of your strong-willed kids.
The Kids Flag Page includes:
- Game Board
- Instruction Booklet
- 36 Trait Game Cards
- 4 Countries of the World Chart
- Kids Flag Page Book by Dr. Tim Kimmel
- Supplies for 3 Kids Flag Pages
- Score Cards
- Sticker
25% Discount Code
Family Matters is offering a 25% discount to all my readers for anything in their store. Simply enter BLG012011KFP at checkout.
*Just copy the code and paste in the coupon box at checkout. It is case sensitive and the 0’s are zeros (there are no letter O’s in the code). This code is good through January 16, 2011.
Faithful Provisions Giveaway Disclosure: Family Matters sponsored this giveaway by providing me with a Kids Flag Page and one to give away to a randomly selected winner. For more information about Faithful Provisions, please read my Disclosure Policy.
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Giveaway ends Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:00 pm CST. The winner will be drawn using Random.org. Winners will be notified via email and all winners will be posted on the Tuesday Giveaway Round-Up post.
I take my 3 boys on mommy-son dates. It’s a great opportunity to let them pick what we do, where we go, and what we eat! 🙂 Part of our dates always consist of “talk time” – just an opportunity to hear them share their hearts w/o the distractions of all the other kids. I so look forward to doing the same with our 9-month old baby girl!
To get to know my children :
Play with them, let them lead me in the play time .
Listen to them (even when they think I am not listening)
Pray with them.
Talk with them
To “get to know”our kids better, my husband and I rotate taking the kids out on “dates” with us. With 10 children, it’s a great way to make each child feel loved and cherished, and they really look forward to their private time with mom or dad.
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Listen to them talking. Going out with them (not enough). I bought a devotional book at Christmas to do with my daughters.
Listen listen listen… usually those ‘offhanded comments are the most telling. Or, those “I love when…” or “I wish we…” comments. I file those bits of info away and try to make our homeschool lessons more meaningful and personal.
I spend one hour each week with each of my children doing whatever they want to do. It gives me the opportunity to connect with them and talk about what they are doing. We also spend Sunday afternoon talking about the Sunday school lesson they had that day, and studying for Awana class that night. This gives my husband and I to answer questions of faith directly. I am looking forward to completing flag page with my children!
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We follow attachment parenting principles and parent our children reflecting ways God parents us.
I get to spend a lot of time with my kids since we homeschool, but I also like to spend individual time with them. Usually a lunch date or an activity.
My daughter and I read and pray together every night before bed. I learn alot about her from the things that she prays about.
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I only have one little boy so pretty much all of my time is devoted to spending time with him. I am expecting a little girl in just a couple months and have been wanting to find something like this. It sounds awesome and I’m going to check it out.
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I put it on Facebook. 🙂
I don’t have a Twitter account, but I would’ve put it on there too if I could. 😉
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I try to talk to my children, and ASK them what’s on their minds, hearts, and thoughts. My eldest is NOT an open book, though… he keeps everything inside, so it’s very difficult to REALLY know what’s going on with him! Just when I think I have him figured out, WHAM!
So, this would be PERFECT for us! I can’t afford that price tag though, so winning it would be a real treat!
One of the things we love to do is go on walks. Thankfully we live in the country and have 1/4 of a mile driveway with a pond that we stop at and throw rocks in. Thanks for the giveaway!
My husband and I go on “dates” with our kids individually, we take them where they want to go, and let them pick one education site and then one complete fun site, along with the restaurant of their choice. We have 4 kids and they need some “me” time every so often
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To get to know my children, I try to really listen to them. I learn the most about my 7 year old when I pray with him. You can tell what’s important to him by what he prays about.
We try to have one-on-one time, but they all want in on it! They are so young (9 yrs to 9 mos.) they ALL want ALL of my attention ALL of the time! I’m not such a great of example of what a good parent, but I’m a shining example of a parent that wants to be better!
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in the summer and warmer months we sit on the porch swing, sing songs and talk
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We rock together and talk before bedtime.
This sounds like a wonderful tool for parents. Can’t wait to learn more about it
We talk each others ears off. We are a family of big talkers. We start every day with what we are doing. Then when the kids get home from school our first is discussion is what we did for the day and what the “Highs” and “Lows” were for the day. I think I might even know more about my kids friends than there only family. . . .
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I would LOVE to have a tool like this to get to know my daughter better. Right now, I just spend time with her and try to let her guide our activities to see what she chooses.
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listen and play with them.
I am interested in this. WHen you first talked about it months ago, I thought my kids were too young to benefit from it. But now I see the ages and I think it’s a definite resource for my daughter and could be tweaked to work for my DS, too!
With my 2 yr. old I watch what she likes and what makes her light up and start to talk. When we take walks I let her lead and see what she is interested in. I love spending time just observing and listening to her!
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To get to know the kids, we spend time with them doing what they want to do. If our son wants us to build legos with him, we do. If our daughters want to paint their nails, we do…even my husband. It really is as simple as that.
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Love this idea! Both my children are so different this would be a great way to get to know them and what makes them so unique!
I would love this kit to help me learn more about my two children. Both soo different, one strong-willed, one gentile, but both true miracles from God.
We go on dates.
Each night around the table, we ask each person what their favorite part of the day was and why. This really reveals a lot about each of them.
Nothing specific, I guess. I just play and talk and pray.
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We have snuggle time at bedtime and talk about the day.
We talk and I listen. Play games, do crafts and spend time togetther. I am a email subscriber.
I try to spend one on one time with each of them so they can have all my attention. I would love this kit! Sounds great!
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Lots of listening, asking what they want to pray about at prayer time. Also at supper we go around the table and tell the family what our favorite part of the day was and we tell the worst part of our day.
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I ask my daughter lots of questions in a non-threatening manner. I need this resource!
Listening to them. Taking them out individually to their special activity. At supper we talk about our day.
I do my best to listen to them, even when I’m not in the mood 🙂
Taking my kids out individually to their favorite restaurant or activity. When I pick them up from the babysitter talk in the car about their day.
I like to talk to them and ask questions. I also learn stuff when they think Im not listening.
At bedtime, we spend time praying and talking about a wealth of things. We start early so we can have time to talk. It is a special time that I learn all kinds of things about their day or how they are feeling.
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I have set up “dates” for each of my kids. We enjoy something special together and talk about stuff, giggle a LOT, and just enjoy being together. 😉
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I love to cook with my 5 year old daughter. We are homeschooling for the first time this year and I am finding all sorts of opportunities to get to know her more through life & learning. With my younger daughter (1 1/2), I just listen to her sounds and watch her expressions to try to best understand her heart. She has been much more challenging than my first, but I feel like we are starting to understand each other better each day!
I put each child down for a nap or bedtime seperately. This way, at the very least we have some time everyday where it is just the two of us and we can talk and pray together. Now that my first son is a little older, I want to make some mommy/son dates.
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Every night we sit and read a Devotional together and we pray and talk about the day. It is a good way for my son to have the opprotunity to open up and share with me his heart and anything going on.
With 3 kids my husband and I rotate who gets to go by themselves with us when we run errands etc. to get a little “alone” time with mom or dad. We also read, play and pray together.
Heard Dr. Tim Kimmel speak at a conference this would be great to win!
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Playing board games and asking open ended questions helps me to know my boys.
Kids Flag Page sounds interesting.
Every night at dinner, we ask our son what he is thankful for that day, what made his heart happy, and what made him sad.
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Great! I have wanted Flag Page for awhile. Forgot to ask for it for Christmas! I get to know my kids by taking them on dates.
I have three kids, but I try to spend one on one time with each of them each day. I LOVE this giveaway!
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I don’t any official methods of getting to know my children, but I would love to try this!
To help getting to know each other, we talk at dinner time.
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I try to listen to my children…watching body language too (to see the true feelings behind the words), we play together and pray together and have family nights. I honestly struggle to connect consistently with my oldest (8 years old), as we are polar opposites. This resource sounds like just what we need to improve our bonding!!
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Play w/ my kids the stuff they want to do. I ask questions and sometimes just listen to them and not say anything.
i try to really listen to them…what they say and what they don’t
I would love to have this. It looks like fun!
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To get to know my children :
Listen to them play (especially when they think I am not listening)
Alyshia Brazzell Fykes I have two great kids with the sweetest spirits i have ever known. we also love to read together the baby doesnt understand yet but loves to laugh along with big brother. i also posted on face book (sorry)
My daughter and I get to know each other when we have our own at home “spa day”. We laugh, talk, and play while doing each others nails and hair.
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Through spending time with my girls and praying with them.
I get to know the kids when we are one-on-one in the car going to an activity.
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Play with my kids.
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I spend one-on-one time with each of my 3 kiddos.
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I spend a lot of time listening to my 3 year old- he has a lot to say. With my 1 year old, I am learning his personality by how he interacts with his world. It’s really about slowing down and paying attention.
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This sounds great! i am always praying to know my children’s hearts. I spend time listening to them.
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I also read with my daughter each night and do a devotional.
I am subscribed to your daily emails.
I bought a one-year preschool devotional book, and we have been reading it together each day.
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We have a dream night where we sit around the living room and share and discuss our dreams. It is amazing to hear what inspires our children and to encourage them to not set boundaries on their dreams.
I don’t have any kids, but I spend time with my brother by playing games with him and helping him with his homework.
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Try to love on them in their own love language which is sometimes a challenge since they are different from my own.
I try to “be present,” and live in the moment with my children…which may mean phone calls be routed to voicemail, etc. I also try to look in their eyes when they are talking to me.
with five kids its hard to keep up with them all, often times I go to bed at night remembering all the times I ‘missed’ my children. What I love to do the most is wrestle and tickle and talk with my kids, and play outside!
Family game nights are a great way for us to get to know our children.
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I love following Faithful Provisions on facebook.
I try to spend some one on one time with each of my kids!
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I would love to win this one. With four kids, I need all the help I can get!
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Listen and watch and play with her
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My daughter and I spend time together at night before she goes to bed and talk about whatever she wants to talk about.
My daughter and I pray together each night before bed.
I follow faithful provisions on facebook!!
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Bath time is always a fun time for me and the little ones to spend time together!!
I play with and talk to my children.
I have a two and three year old and I try to have one and one time with my three year old son and just focus on boy things with him. I always am surprised by something he communicates to me during the time. Prayer time at night also reveals things he might be feeling through the day. As in, he’ll pray to help him not get mad at his sister. 🙂
This is awesome,and I am not familiar with it.would love to have it!
I am a subscriber/fan/follower. I get to know my daughter by spending quality time with her…watching her expressions to know and understand what it is she’s wanting or needing!
I get to know my children better by listening to them play when they don’t know I am there, I listen to them when they talk to me, I listen to them when they are at school playing, I get to know them when we pray at night or when we are telling our own make-believe stories. These are my favorite times 🙂
Would love to have this!
Love to spend snowy days cuddle up inside with my little ones…just hanging out…
I try to spend some sort of time each week with each child just listening to them talk about what they enjoy, and don’t enjoy. Even if it is just in the car ride to a activity. If we are alone in the car… I turn off the radio and start a conversation to see were it leads..
I play with my daughter and I watch her play with other children.
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I love to do different activities like zoo and adventure science with my kids and watch their reactions and ask them questions about it.
I spend time with my kids…I am a SAHM, so we’re together a lot. 🙂 Also, talking at bedtime and dinner.
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well to get to know my kids,, i talk to them regularly,,,we have a family fun nite,, some of my kids have a phone so i call them if when there in the next room. talk with them and there friends together,, watch them daily(ways),there reactions,emotions.just keep them close.
I have been stalking this! I think it would be a great tool in your homeschool. Thanks!
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I try to ask my daughters questions about how they feel and why they think of things.
My son & I both love sports. We can either throw a football around or play baseball outside. Once I start playing ball with him it is very easy to get him talking about school, friends, or whatever is bothering him.
I would love to have this!
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With my younger ones, I have one-on-one snuggle time talks after dinner. A couple times a week, I have one of them help me cook a baked good or I find a cooking task for each of them but I only allow one child in the kitchen at a time. This one-on-one time lets us talk and laugh together. I take the older ones to run errands with me or to lunch. I let them pick the music on the radio and choose the restaurant. Sometimes we just go through the drive-thru and sit in the parking lot to eat. We have some great talks during our outings! I think they feel more comfortable and relaxed in an enviornment they have created.
I love the time I spend rocking my daughters before bed. That’s our time to sit and talk, and I feel like that’s when I really ge tto know them!
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One on one time with each child and let them direct the play. Pray with them and listen to them.
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What I do to get to know my kids is to invite them to cook dinner with me, where I use the time to talk to them about their day. This allows them to talk to me about whatever might be bothering them at any given time.
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We spend time with them one on one. And I have made a point to stop whatever I am doing (NO multitasking!) and focus on them.
I listen. 🙂
I take my kids out on mommy and me days.
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We spend ALOT of time with our kids! We have chosen to Home School them and enjoy every minute of it! We often times follow their lead and we guide as needed.
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I spend time with them doing what they enjoy doing. I sometimes just sit and watch them play.
I just try to ask lots of questions to see what they are interested in and see if I can get them talking… then just sit back and listen!
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when going for walks/riding in the car, putting together puzzles, etc. we talk about things going on in their lives. I make it a safe environment for them to feel like they can ask questions.
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I try to spend one on one time with each of my kids. Even if it’s taking just 1 to the grocery store or to run errands, it gives them a chance to have my full attention. Sometimes we get the chance at home too.
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I spend time talking with them.
We do “mommy & kid” dates…each child gets one date a month to go somewhere alone with me and talk, goof around and just hang out. It might be something they get to pick or sometimes budget dictates that it is something as simple as taking a walk or running errands with me…it doesn’t matter it is just the time spent together!
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I would love to read this book. I feel like I am at a crossroads with my oldesttd daughter in that I NEED to know more about her learning ways and her heart!
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To “get to know” my children, I try to spend LOTS of time with them… you can’t know them without “being with” them…..
I posted your contest on my facebook.
We do a fun trivia where we ask each other questions.
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I make sure to talk to my daughter over dinner each night and see how her day went each day.
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Listen- not only to them but also their friends. Homeschooling also makes it easier for my wife & I to “get to know” our children.
This looks like a wonderful tool! Right now, I don’t do a lot to get to know my children and I’ve been looking for something to help with that.
We start homeschooling on Monday (long story), so I’m sure that will help!
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I already follow you on Twitter, but I followed Family Matters. I’ve never heard of them, but they look like they have some great tools!
I’ve already liked you on FB. But I liked Family Matters as well. Just like my previous statement/entry – I think they have some great tools that I will be using in the future!
I like to take my 7 year old out with me by himself, when my husband can be home with the little one during naptime.
I like to have my girls tell my stories about what they remember, or to make up stories. I also love to eavesdrop while they are playing – too funny!
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I spend time with each child seperately at least a few times a week so we can get some one on one times. Even if it isnt for very long.
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I spend individual time with my children, and read to them at night.
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I have begun taking my daughter with me shopping, teaching her how to manage your time and money, how to do lists blah blah blah… would love to find out if I’m teaching her the best way for her to learn
I take my girls out on one-on-one dates where I can have undistracted quality time with them…. this allows me to have more deeper talks with them. I also have special cuddle time with them every evening which allows me to have more quality time to talk with them and see how there day was.