PARENTING November 6, 2006 Issue

'PERFECT' MAKES PRACTICE FUN

GINNY LUEDEMAN

SINCE THIS NEW SCHOOL year started, there's been no more sleeping in for this family. With piano performances, last-minute homework assignments, after-school choir rehearsals, and a 7:10 school bus to catch each day, there isn't much downtime.

Still, we always make time in the mornings to read with our children from the Weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson. Praying together is strengthening and unifying, and it gives us spiritual ideas we can use during the day.

We saw proof that this activity was worthwhile a year ago. Things were getting particularly stressful, and we really had to put our prayers into practice. Thirteen-year-old Josh, our youngest, needed to practice 45 minutes on the piano in the mornings. The constant emphasis on "practice makes perfect" was becoming anything but fun to enforce, and I was beginning to dread his piano lessons each week. When Josh participated in recitals, my husband, Craig, and I would often just hold each other's sweaty hands and pray to put down feelings of fear about Josh's performance.

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