IDENTIFYING AND RAISING CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THEIR MOTIVATIONAL GIFT: When trying to assess the child’s gift it is easier to break the traits up into two different groups. The first division has to do with leader or follower type traits. The second way they may be observed is by physical, emotional, or intellectual responses.

9-11-2015 – A Word to the Wise: Often I give the assignments to list daily five things you are grateful for. Often one may ask, “How long must I do that?”

IDENTIFYING AND RAISING CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THEIR MOTIVATIONAL GIFT: The old adage about treating every child the same is most certainly poor advice. Rather each child should be raised according to their gift. Parents tend to raise a child according to their own gift, yet this tends to be a real hindrance when the child has a different gift.

9-10-2015 – A Word to the Wise: However, in reality, this also is a basic principle of life. I often give my clients the assignment to write out the book of Proverbs. I know the longer they write it the wiser they become. Often they ask how long must I write it?

IDENTIFYING AND RAISING CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THEIR MOTIVATIONAL GIFT: There are two external influences that strongly impact the gifts: birth order, and abnormal abuse,( abandonment, neglect, rejection or death of a parent). These influences may either enhance or deflect the gift.

9-9-2015 – A Word to the Wise: I have diabetes. A horrendous side effect is if I eat, I get hungry, the more I eat the hungrier I get. Willful sin is like that. The more one sins, the more they have to sin. A little is never enough. That is the nature of addiction, the nature of all sin. A little is never enough.

IDENTIFYING AND RAISING CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THEIR MOTIVATIONAL GIFT: The gifts are called motivational as opposed to spiritual because it is my opinion the gifts are given by the Lord before a child is born. The gift shows in the child from the Lord’s investment in their life and testifies to the child of the Lord’s presence. Each of the gifts have specific traits not utilized in the other gifts. There are seven. Some break these up into dozens or even hundreds yet I have found that these seven form the core. Along with the gifts are specific character traits central to the gift.

9-8-2015 – A Word to the Wise: So if the antisocial, sociopath, or psychopath cannot feel love what hope is there for them? Herein lays the lesson. Love is not a feeling it is an attitude and behavior and every sane man can exercise it.

IDENTIFYING AND RAISING CHILDREN ACCORDING TO THEIR MOTIVATIONAL GIFT: This study will be in two parts. This section will focus on children birth to about five years of age. The second part will focus on children six to ten. The following elements will be the focus of our attention.

9-7-2015 – A Word to the Wise: The free will in man is so powerful that it never leaves a sane person. Most live under the misbelief that we can change the antisocial, sociopath, or psychopath. Man cannot do this, only the Lord can do it and even when He does it there remains the personality.