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Excited is an understatement. We 💙 all of your sweet #firstday of school pictures, but even more we love having each of your beautiful children under our care. We love partnering with you, parents! Today we start a new year. It is another chapter of #lifetogether in the covenant family. YOU are what make today, this year, and this place amazing! #ForStudents #ForFamilies #ForTheKingdom
Tomorrow! Who else is this excited?!? 💙
Yesterday’s welcome back was full of reunions, capturing special “firsts,” and A LOT of gratitude. We LOVE this family and can’t wait to be together again! 💙 #ForStudents #ForFamilies #ForTheKingdom
As we prayerfully approach a new year and all that is in store, we rejoice that we walk with a sovereign God who has gone before us! With that heart, we want to invite all dads to come and pray over our students, the covenant family, and our community. We hope all our covenant dads will consider joining us this Saturday beginning at 7am in the Fellowship Hall at @perimeteratl. When we radically depend on Christ alone we will find everything we need. The 2019-20 school year is almost here! We joyfully anticipate all God has in store for each of our families. #ForStudents #ForFamilies #ForTheKingdom
"I believe the school is essential to discipling the next generation for kingdom impact. The school is where life-on-life relationships are cultivated. The school is where godly disciplines are instilled and hearts transformed. The school is where servant leadership is modeled, a biblical worldview shaped, and a kingdom mindset informed. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ I am convinced that it is out of the school that our church will raise up lifelong disciple-makers and externally focused difference-makers. The school is paramount in equipping our children to understand their role and purpose in cultural renewal and gospel living." - Jeremy Case, Head of School at Perimeter School⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Head over to the Perimeter School blog and search "Getting to Know our Next Head of School, Jeremy Case" to read the heart-felt interviews with Jeremy, his wife, Carolyn, and their three sons, Cooper, Colby, and Callum.⁠
HEAR THIS! Developing strong listening skills builds your child’s auditory processing abilities - essential for following instructions and succeeding in the classroom and beyond!⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ Give your child a 3-4 step direction to follow and repeat it twice. For example “clap, turn around, touch your nose, and raise you hands.” Most children can remember the amount of directions equivalent to their age. Once they master remembering a 4-step direction, challenge them by increasing the amount of directions! ⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ Have fun and be silly together. This can be a sweet time to make memories without anyone realizing they’re learning.⠀⁠
Laura, Perimeter School Class of 1999, lives in Johns Creek with her husband and their 3 children: Ethan, Caleb, and Lyla. While Laura is a Perimeter School alumni, she is also a Perimeter School mom raising her children in the same covenant community that deeply impacted her own life.⁠ ⁠ "I loved growing up in the covenant community. I had so many other ‘moms’ that poured in to me, some through discipleship, some just from being in their homes or riding with them for carpool. Now my kids are getting to experience the same benefits! I want other parents to be in my kids’ lives and I love getting to know their classmates. ⁠ ⁠ What we really love is that we’re partnering with teachers and other parents that care for our children’s spiritual development. We know that sending our kids to a covenant school doesn’t ensure their salvation, but we feel it’s the best environment for them to learn the truths of our faith and to see it lived out.⁠ ⁠ We don’t want our kids to just be good kids who do the right things, we want our kids to know their own depravity and then see the mercy and grace offered to them in Jesus. That was the gift Perimeter gave me and what we pray our children receive here as well.⁠ ⁠ Growing up at Perimeter School and Perimeter Church shaped everything about me! The best gift it gave me was a Biblical worldview. I feel like I had the best foundation possible going in to college and adulthood and knowing how to view the world through the lens of the gospel.⁠ ⁠ Before we had children, I worked as a tax accountant at a public accounting firm in Atlanta. All I had ever really wanted was to be a stay-at-home-mom and pour truth into my children's’ lives. I’m so grateful to do that at a place that is so special to me.⁠ ⁠ We seriously didn’t consider anywhere else for our family!” - Laura Jessen Richard
How do we address and nurture a child’s heart when handling UNHEALTHY FRIENDSHIPS? Below we’ve recommended questions divided by school age to help you guide your child’s heart towards identifying healthy and unhealthy friendships.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Lower Elementary:⠀⠀ - What makes someone a good friend?⠀⠀ - Describe people who are not good friends.⠀⠀ - What kind of people were Jesus’ friends?⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Upper Elementary:⠀⠀ - What do the good friends you hang out with encourage you to do?⠀⠀ - How do your friendships glorify God?⠀⠀ - What can you do to be a better friend to others?⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Middle School:⠀⠀ - Do you feel pressured to act a certain way? Why do you want to do what your friends say to do? - How can you be in the world but not of the world in your friendships?⠀⠀ - If a friendship you have is not healthy, how do you get out of it?⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ** Remember the nature of your own heart and ask for cleansing and a right spirit. Use the question(s) that you think are best for the uniqueness of your child. #ProbingTheHeart⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ #ForStudents #ForFamilies #ForTheKingdom
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