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Story telling has been the way of teaching and learning since the beginning of time. Raising Grace is about parenting - Raising children with love and grace while also giving ourselves love and grace when between the failures and joys.

“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” --Jimmy Neil Smith

Grace, Parenting, Forgiveness, Young Children Sheila Chester Grace, Parenting, Forgiveness, Young Children Sheila Chester

Sheila’s Take on Forgiveness

My sons bike go stolen last week and I've been processing a lot of feelings as well as figuring out how to help him through his own feelings. I hate feelings. Feelings are something I've tried avoiding most of my life - but avoiding feelings has left me in many many therapy sessions. So how can I help my kids confront their feelings - especially those of anger and loss? This may be a dumb old bike being stolen, but there is a lesson to learn here.

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Grace, Parenting, Forgiveness, Young Children Sheila Chester Grace, Parenting, Forgiveness, Young Children Sheila Chester

Sheila’s Take on Grace

What is Grace? Is it a religious term? And why are we raising grace? What does any of this mean? Here I give you a bit of back story - what my current life looks like and why I think we need to work together as parents to raise our kids with grace and give ourselves a little grace. My less serious introduction to this podcast and to who I am. It's funny, it's serious, its short. I think I say the "s" word once.

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