Creating Family Culture :: Amber O’Neal Johnston [SOM Wk 4]

<h1><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating Family Culture</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">:: Amber O’Neal Johnston [SOM Wk 4]</span></h1> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are creating a culture for your family, right now, whether or not you’re aware of it or intentional in it. Your words and actions reveal the functional values you have for your family. Is yours a culture of fun and laughter? Grace and second chances? Integrity and grit? It could be all of those and more, or something simpler - it is unique to your family! Whatever it is, if it isn’t intentionally cultivated it will be like a garden filled with weeds - growing, but haphazard.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guest this week is Amber O’Neal Johnston and one of the values that drives her family’s culture is that her kids would know they are seen and valued at home</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in the world. And that other people are just as valuable too.  This, along with other values, drives the decisions they make about how they interact with the world around them, right down to the restaurants they eat at.  She challenges us to not only cultivate a family culture, but to grow as moms and people along the way. Her book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Place to Belong: Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is available now.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re taking time this summer (as usual) to be mentored by some experienced moms and benefit from their wisdom. I’m asking them about their “mom brands” and the unique families and assignments God has given them to help us embrace the specific and unique spot God has given each of us. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;">Discussion Questions:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What stood out to you from this episode? </span></li> <li