To Know Him hosts Know and Tell Friday and asks this week:

Question 1
Which is worse? Being gossipped about or being lied to?

I honestly don’t know. Both would hurt.

Question 2
I see that a lot of ladies out there in blogville are “Starbucks” gals… What is your favorite “Starbucks” drink?

That’s one craze I’ve missed out on. 🙂 I have to drink decaf for health reasons, and I don’t like flavored coffees or cold coffee drinks, so I have never even had Starbucks coffee. I figure I’ve saved a lot of money that way. 🙂

Question 3
Name an embarrassing moment (Make it good).

Honestly, this isn’t just a cop-out, but I can’t think of one, though I know I’ve had them. Maybe my mind just quickly puts them away. 🙂 If I think of any I’ll come back to this one later.

Question 4
I figure that most of us ladies out there are bargain shoppers and that we find ways to save money, but what is one thing that you don’t mind spending your bucks on?

We buy name brands of a lot of paper products because the generics just haven’t held up as well. With other groceries it just depends — we buy a mix of generics and name brands. I struggle with this when it comes to home furnishings. I would love to buy heirloom-quality items, but they’re just so expensive.

Bonus Questions
Question 5
Is it hard for you to ask some to forgive you when you have wronged them?

It’s not easy, but it helps to clear the air and restore the relationship (usually), so it’s good to just go ahead and do it.

Question 6
Give one of your best parenting tips…something that you have learned through experience.

I have a whole list of these here. Besides the obvious and basic principles of keeping the Lord first in your own relationship and studying what the Bible has to say about training children, one of the best tips I have ever heard is to ask questions rather than making accusations or telling them what they did wrong at first. The latter tends to make children (as well as adults) defensive, but when you ask them exactly what they did and why, it leads to self-examination. One speaker (Will Galkin) put it that “Questions stir the conscience, but accusation hardens the will.” That must be one reason God asks people questions in Scripture (“Adam, where art thou?”) when He already knows the answer. This also helps keep the parent (or teacher or whomever) from acting on assumption (which can often be wrong) and helps them get to the root of the problem.