Shopping with Purpose:

Shopping trips can be fun excursions with your daughters.  Shopping “with purpose” can be valuable and memorable at the same time.  Why not consider tackling some of these issues when taking shopping trips with your daughters.

• Why is it appropriate to wear an outfit to one event but not be appropriate to wear the same outfit to a different event?  Is it hypocritical?
• What is immodesty? What is modesty?  Using Michelle Brock’s book What Is Modesty? would be an effective book to read together—it teaches principles without sounding “preachy.”
• How does facial shape, skin coloring, and body shape affect what styles and color schemes I purchase? Using Color Me Beautiful would be helpful to mothers and daughters if they want to figure out their “season” which would then give them direction to which colors look best on them.
• How can I save money by purchasing this item in bulk? When would buying in bulk not save money?
• Why do stores sell so many fashions that seem immodest? Use this opportunity to teach your daughter the world’s goals.  Knowing the enemy’s strategies makes fighting a war not so overwhelming.
• How would Satan try to tempt me to wear immodest clothes? What are my weaknesses?  What are my strengths?  Knowing the enemy is important, but knowing your own limitations is crucial to winning the war.  Talking about how temptations even begin in a Christian’s life is part of the battle plan.  Hint:  Temptations only have power when lust is present.  We can’t be tempted if we don’t want it.

Sleepovers with Purpose:

Going on an overnight adventure is a highlight to daughters old and young!  Whether the sleepover involves the comforts of a hotel room or the rugged outdoors of a camping trip, teachable moments abound.  Why not consider getting to know each other using these questions.  They are designed to be asked to a mother and/or daughter.  Ironwood has used these questions as part of a mother/daughter hike.  A mother draws out a question from the bag and asks her daughter the question.  The hike is most productive when both mother and daughter are answering the questions and discussing the answers.

What is your favorite room in the house?  Why?

What is the hardest part of growing up?

What is the hardest part of being an adult?

What would you like to be remembered for?

Describe an ideal day.

What do you think your friends appreciate about you?

What new thing would you like to learn to do?

Is it ever okay to break a promise?  Explain.

What does it mean to forgive someone?

Why do you think people lie?

What is your favorite possession?  Why?