A wish from the Sacred Heart BeYou Action Team.

We hope we have nurtured your heart this year with the articles and webinars we have shared through the newsletter. It is a highlight of our week to share items that bring us joy and speak to our community in that moment.

Many families have told us that Parenting Ideas is helpful, so we will be continuing this subscription. Look out in 2021 for articles from Parenting TV, Generation Next and of course the BeYou network.

Today's last article is adapted from a wonderful blog called ‘Inspiring Girls’.

Wishing you a safe, healthy and happy holiday. 

Kerry Wode, Tash Barrenger, Brendan Mitchell and the BeYou Action Team

PS: And if you want a day trip from Canberra during the holidays, visit the Big Hole off the Cooma Road south of Braidwood. The bonus is after the hike up the hill, you get to swim in the Shoalhaven River and picnic in the shady rest area! 

‘tis the season to gorge on love and connection

2020 has been a difficult time by anyone’s standards, and many of us have adapted, but the cost has been the juicy parts of ourselves. Even our kids seem a little skinny inside. They’re tired.

We all get tired and it is the juicy parts of ourselves that are sacrificed first, our connection, our creativity, our gentle fun.

Being on holidays is an opportunity to allow children and teenagers to flex their muscles. Literally, they get to run and climb and swim and play for hours at a time. But we can also give them the opportunity to discover new muscles.

We can give them the chance to take control and direct our days! They can use their creative and problem-solving muscles in real life. We have the opportunity to allow kids to make decisions about what we do and how we do it.

When we have years’ worth of holidays in our family memory vault, they sustain us even in the skinny, dry times. We can call them forth and they have the power to regenerate us. They help to keep us fat with connection and love…no matter what.

https://www.inspiringgirls.info/post/importance-of-holidays

Yours faithfully,