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raising godly tomatoes home message board testimonials order the book the book underlying principles square one teaching obedience raising a godly child the basics and before starting early starting late discerning the spirit tomato staking the s word emotional issues dealing with feelings crying and whining temper tantrums with character in mind pride problems sibling squabbles insightful issues the parent s part fixing ourselves first older children afterword afterword other materials specific problems the littlest ones babies in church siblings situations car rides irritation with children more on older children miscellaneous what not to do your first love knowing god proverbs parenting biblical discipline e s favorite verses family commentaries extra on underlying principals the outside world family farm quiver full nursing child care child proofing safety potty training working moms homeschooling special needs kids elizabeth s fun stuff blessings of the day quilts diet page cookbook book reviews attachment parenting babywise favorite books and links favorite books links raising godly tomatoes now in print raising godly tomatoes is now in it s second printing click here to read reviews of rgt at amazon com click here to order 14 95 per single copy discounts for multiple sales why do you have so many children an introduction by elizabeth m y husband and i have ten children ten so far anyway with large families being so rare these days i m often asked why we would want to have so many my answer is not quite the same as many of the other large family testimonies i have heard you see we didn t always want a lot of children neither did we come to any particular conviction that in order to be obedient to god we must have many children no we didn t arrive where we are by that route instead our hearts were changed over a period of time by the influence of experience and the godly advice of others before i married i never cared too much for babies or small children or even older children not up close anyway i never played with dolls as a child i rarely babysat and i was really rather uncomfortable around children i was afraid of them i didn t know what to do with them or how to handle them so i avoided them whenever possible sure i had enjoyed my own five siblings so in a vague sort of way i pictured the ideal family as large but that was it i didn t really have much of a picture after that things were similar for my husband when he was a young man so when we married we decided on a nice neat two children considering my lack of nature child related talents maybe we d wait until they were both in school before considering two more i really didn t think i could handle all four home at once or any more than that then our first born came into the world and we both fell immediately in love he was so perfect those tiny toes that cute little baby mouth those beautiful blueberry blue eyes he stole our hearts instantly number two was just as wonderful beautiful and sweet and good a little girl this time i had visions of smocked dresses and little fingers playing the violin someday well after another couple of years we weren t so sure about our plans to wait until these first two were in school before having more by this time we were starting to think maybe children weren t all that bad at least our own weren t and maybe we should just go ahead and have our total of four all in a row then quit so we changed plans and welcomed a third then started hoping for a fourth but alas as our children grew past the baby stage a few problems cropped up as much as i loved my children i found parenting pre schoolers difficult and frustrating i read all the books i prayed i took parenting classes i did everything a good mother was supposed to do yet i was still confused and discouraged i was amazed at how challenging they could be i felt as though i was constantly on the verge of being driven crazy by all those annoying little things that small children do all day long despite all the books and experts i really still had no idea what i could or could not discipline them for or how to discipline them if i should attempt to i thought i was just supposed to ignore and endure all their little misbehaviors and i wasn t doing very good at that i also started worrying about the salvation of my children i didn t seem to have much control over their behavior so how was i going to influence their hearts i was terrified of the thought that some or all of my children might grow up to be unbelievers i didn t know how i could live with that we d thought about having more children but we didn t want more if they were going to ultimately rebel we felt we d already taken a chance by having the ones we had and we weren t sure we wanted to tempt fate further we didn t think it was enough to just say we were doing our best and trusting god with the rest we d heard that from too many christians whose children had ended up on drugs or committing fornication or just hating their parents and god as well we didn t want that to happen in our family then two things happened first we discovered homeschooling that gave me great hope i loved the knowledge that i wouldn t have to shove my children out into the big cold dangerous world away from my guidance and protection at age five maybe we could keep them from peer pressure and negative influences for at least a little longer and maybe that would allow us to stay close to them for a while longer too i really really wanted to stay close to my children i remember a neighbor casually commenting to me one day oh you lose them when they go to school what i did not want to lose my beloved children homeschooling gave me hope that this might not have to happen maybe if i could keep them with me a while longer i could also keep their hearts close to mine and maybe i d have a better chance to influence them toward god secondly we started fellowshipping with a slightly older couple who knew how to train in a godly way that worked their children had grown from babyhood through the toddler stage past early childhood and into through and out of the teen years with no temper tantrums no terrible twos no teenaged rebellion no raging hormones no drug problems no promiscuity no anything awful how could that be they had even managed to maintain a close and loving relationship their parents and they all loved god and had chosen to serve him with their whole hearts as we began to ask for and follow this couple s parenting advice which i will share with you here we very quickly began to have hope that we really could raise godly children who would not go astray there is great peace in realizing that god gives us a plan for doing so we don t have to just roll the dice with the help of these godly friends we gained hope and confidence for the future we began for the first time to trust in god s words found in proverbs 22 6 nas train up a child in the way he should go even when he is old he will not depart from it at this point are began to notice for the first time the enormous wealth of information the bible contains about childrearing guess what the entire bible is about children and families god loves children the bible is written to his children we are his children his promises are to his children his wisdom and guidance is all there for his children to live by he valued his children enough to die for them anyway i won t go on about that at the moment but all these things opened our eyes to wanting more children knowing how to discipline train nurture and love our children gave us the confidence that we could have and enjoy many of them so i guess we didn t have ten children so far out of obedience but rather out of god given desire after discovering the knowledge we needed to successfully raise that many we now enjoy our children daily as the very special blessings that god says they are who wouldn t want another blessing behold children are a gift of the lord the fruit of the womb is a reward psalm 127 3 nas c copyright 2007 l elizabeth krueger all rights reserved scripture quotations taken from the nasb