Comments for Dr. Kathy Koch http://drkathykoch.com Hope For the Future, Equipping The Present Mon, 14 May 2012 15:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Play More! Kids At Play Can Awaken Their Strengths and Smarts by Jean Golightly http://drkathykoch.com/play-more/#comment-420 Jean Golightly Mon, 14 May 2012 15:38:32 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=868#comment-420 Perfect!! I can't wait to play with him a again...Thanks for all of your words of hope and encoragement! I will try to be the teacher your nephew had to my 6th graders...help them find their purpose as a unique and beautiful teenager!! Perfect!! I can’t wait to play with him a again…Thanks for all of your words of hope and encoragement! I will try to be the teacher your nephew had to my 6th graders…help them find their purpose as a unique and beautiful teenager!!

]]> Comment on Play More! Kids At Play Can Awaken Their Strengths and Smarts by Kathy Koch http://drkathykoch.com/play-more/#comment-412 Kathy Koch Wed, 09 May 2012 17:12:16 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=868#comment-412 Jean, Thanks for your comments. How fun that you've had similar expereinces to ours. Enjoy your summer with your son. I dare you to surprise him one day by dumping his Legos onto the living room floor for some play time! I loved reconnecting with you at the Memphis homeschool convention. Blessings to you! Jean,
Thanks for your comments. How fun that you’ve had similar expereinces to ours. Enjoy your summer with your son. I dare you to surprise him one day by dumping his Legos onto the living room floor for some play time!

I loved reconnecting with you at the Memphis homeschool convention. Blessings to you!

]]> Comment on Play More! Kids At Play Can Awaken Their Strengths and Smarts by Jean Golightly http://drkathykoch.com/play-more/#comment-410 Jean Golightly Wed, 09 May 2012 15:18:28 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=868#comment-410 My son just came home from his freshman year at VA Tech, he too is majoring in mechanical engineering which I attribute to his many hours with his Legos and Brio track. I spent many hours myself laying on the floor helping him organize and sort out the variety of shapes and colors of this magical plastic bricks. We had many Thursday mornings spent going from garage sale to garage sale in hopes to find someone who would part with these precious toys. One day we hit the jackpot! Some one was actually parting with a box of misfit bricks, lego people and books and books of directions, both Chirstopher and I thought we had won the lottery, the best part is she sold them to Chris for $10 because she knew he was going to play and learn from them as her son had. As Chris' first summer as a college student begins, and he rarely has time to "play" anymore, his Legos and Brio sit in large plastic bins in the attic awaiting the day his son will play as he did!! My son just came home from his freshman year at VA Tech, he too is majoring in mechanical engineering which I attribute to his many hours with his Legos and Brio track. I spent many hours myself laying on the floor helping him organize and sort out the variety of shapes and colors of this magical plastic bricks. We had many Thursday mornings spent going from garage sale to garage sale in hopes to find someone who would part with these precious toys. One day we hit the jackpot! Some one was actually parting with a box of misfit bricks, lego people and books and books of directions, both Chirstopher and I thought we had won the lottery, the best part is she sold them to Chris for $10 because she knew he was going to play and learn from them as her son had. As Chris’ first summer as a college student begins, and he rarely has time to “play” anymore, his Legos and Brio sit in large plastic bins in the attic awaiting the day his son will play as he did!!

]]> Comment on Honoring Charity’s Life, Family & Community by How Do We Grieve? Using Multiple Intelligences to Grieve Well and Completely - Dr. Kathy Koch http://drkathykoch.com/honoring-charity/#comment-407 How Do We Grieve? Using Multiple Intelligences to Grieve Well and Completely - Dr. Kathy Koch Wed, 02 May 2012 14:53:12 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=829#comment-407 [...] you know, if you read last week’s blog posts (here and here), grief has been on my mind lately. Would it surprise you to know that understanding how [...] [...] you know, if you read last week’s blog posts (here and here), grief has been on my mind lately. Would it surprise you to know that understanding how [...]

]]> Comment on Honoring Charity’s Life, Family & Community by A Beautiful Tribute Video to Charity Hope Black Hadick - Dr. Kathy Koch http://drkathykoch.com/honoring-charity/#comment-399 A Beautiful Tribute Video to Charity Hope Black Hadick - Dr. Kathy Koch Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:36:13 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=829#comment-399 [...] is the embedded video below. It was created to honor the life of Charity Hope Black Hadick, the daughter of the friend I posted about on Monday. Watching it will give you a glimpse into her life and [...] [...] is the embedded video below. It was created to honor the life of Charity Hope Black Hadick, the daughter of the friend I posted about on Monday. Watching it will give you a glimpse into her life and [...]

]]> Comment on Honoring Charity’s Life, Family & Community by Real Life Forces Realignment and True Perspective | EveryDay Thoughts Collected http://drkathykoch.com/honoring-charity/#comment-394 Real Life Forces Realignment and True Perspective | EveryDay Thoughts Collected Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:53:50 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=829#comment-394 [...] few days after taking her to the hospital. And then when we learned she had passed, I along with many people across the country (world) wept with my friend and his family. He has a lot of [...] [...] few days after taking her to the hospital. And then when we learned she had passed, I along with many people across the country (world) wept with my friend and his family. He has a lot of [...]

]]> Comment on The Importance, and Influence, of Our Name by Andrea Unruh http://drkathykoch.com/importance-influence-name/#comment-384 Andrea Unruh Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:58:12 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=803#comment-384 My mother told me I was named after a movie star! I have always loved my name. I love how it sounds, I love how it looks when "written" in my mom's hand writing, and I love how it is diferent. Many times I have to repeat it with the emphasis on the pronounciation of "AHHHH"ndrea. My mom explained that she had a still born girl before me and that they saved the name "Andrea" because they wanted a daughter named Andrea. I do think it is a special name. I am going to remind my 84 year old mother that I do love my name. Thank you, to you for reminding that it is a great name! My mother told me I was named after a movie star! I have always loved my name. I love how it sounds, I love how it looks when “written” in my mom’s hand writing, and I love how it is diferent. Many times I have to repeat it with the emphasis on the pronounciation of “AHHHH”ndrea. My mom explained that she had a still born girl before me and that they saved the name “Andrea” because they wanted a daughter named Andrea. I do think it is a special name. I am going to remind my 84 year old mother that I do love my name. Thank you, to you for reminding that it is a great name!

]]> Comment on The Importance, and Influence, of Our Name by Kayci http://drkathykoch.com/importance-influence-name/#comment-381 Kayci Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:32:01 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=803#comment-381 Great article! My husband and I had a theology teacher in college who said "names are important" and told us when studying the Bible to always look out for names and their meanings, especially when they are changed. This caused us to put a lot of thought and prayer into naming our children and making sure they were meaningful. Our kids' names mean "young warrior/God is my salvation", "honorable/son", "gift of God/who is like God?" and "noble beauty/grace". Great article! My husband and I had a theology teacher in college who said “names are important” and told us when studying the Bible to always look out for names and their meanings, especially when they are changed. This caused us to put a lot of thought and prayer into naming our children and making sure they were meaningful. Our kids’ names mean “young warrior/God is my salvation”, “honorable/son”, “gift of God/who is like God?” and “noble beauty/grace”.

]]> Comment on The Importance, and Influence, of Our Name by Kathy Koch http://drkathykoch.com/importance-influence-name/#comment-380 Kathy Koch Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:43:14 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=803#comment-380 Jay, It's rare that I'm speechless, but that's how I'm reacting to your post. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how God works and I'm very grateful we're reconnected. I'm honored to speak into your life. Truly! I'm very grateful for God meeting your needs and bringing healing to your life. Celebrating YOU now! Kathy Jay,
It’s rare that I’m speechless, but that’s how I’m reacting to your post. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how God works and I’m very grateful we’re reconnected. I’m honored to speak into your life. Truly! I’m very grateful for God meeting your needs and bringing healing to your life. Celebrating YOU now!
Kathy

]]> Comment on The Importance, and Influence, of Our Name by Jay Stone http://drkathykoch.com/importance-influence-name/#comment-379 Jay Stone Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:43:57 +0000 http://drkathykoch.com/?p=803#comment-379 Of course I love this post, Kathy! I could I not. A friend of mine once told me that it is a tradition among some orthodox Jews that the father of the child waits until the child is born to announce the childs name, and then whispers it in the ear of the child. The child is the first to hear it uttered. I have not researched this to know if it is correct, but I love the truths held in what my firend shared with me about this. My earthy father was mostly absent in my life emotionally. When he was present, my sensitive nature as a child put a wedge between us, and subsequently, I was unable to feel much connection with him, and still struggle with that connection today, even though he is no longer with us. But the result of that personal story is that God the ultimate Father continues to reveal to me, time after time, and grace after grace, His complete and full love for me, even despite my unfulfilled longings as a child. When I felt God was leading my wife and I to name our son "Jay-my-son", not only did I feel it was specifially for him in affirming his existance as his earthly father's son, but I also felt as though our Abba Father, Daddy God, was telling me on a personal level, that every time I said my son's name, Jamison, I would be hearing my Heavnly Father reaffirm me as His child, and I would be reminded that my name before God is "Jay-my-son". Words are so powerful! I feel so grateful to Daddy God for bringing you back into my life at this time, Kathy. God knew I needed to be reminded of the truths you have shared here in this post, along with God's heart behind my son's name, and God's love for me. I have over the years at times, through a variety of struggles, lost sight of what I am sharing here, and have not always walked in these truths about our Father. I have been on this homeschool journey now for seven years with my boys, and have up until this year, never attended a homeschool convention, even though they have been in our city each year. The timing never seemed to fit and I just never made it. This year I felt compelled to go and felt even stronger that I must connect with you, Kathy. What's even more interesting is that I feel very secure in how our homeschooling journey has evolved over the years and didn't feel the need to purchase any particular homeschool resources at the convention even though I wandered through all the booths. When I finally found your booth ... on the very last isle, I felt I had come home. Literally! My wife and I have been struggling lately in our home with finding a balance between correcting with love and have felt for sometime that we were landing most of the time on the side of criticizing without knowing how to change it. It wasn't until I picked up your booklet and cd on "complimenting and correcting" and "fabulous feedback" that where we have been in error finally made sense. Your explanation of the the difference between criticism and correcting--the one being to point out an err vs. putting right an err--is profound and exactly what our hearts have been longing to hear. All this to say, that during my first visit to your booth over the weekend, I bought your book, and three cd's. And do you know, that I was so blessed by the material in the booklet I just mentioned that I simply had to come back the next day, even though I didn't plan to come back to the convention again, just to get my hands on a few more teachings of yours that are centered in things I believe we are all longing to hear from our Heavenly Father. Kathy, I can not tell you how beyond words I am at this moment in thanking God for you and your ministry. Some of the simple but profound truths you teach are exactly what my wife and I have been longing to hear ... God's words of affirmation for us ... and how those words in our ears, and resounding in the ears of our children, have the power to positively recreate, affirm, and affect the future of our family and the budding life of our two boys. As you have so wisely said, our words either judge the past, our affect the future. I am so thankful for you my fellow sister in Christ, and so glad had our paths to cross once again. You are an amazing, thoughtful, wise, accepting, word-smart, interesting, joyfilled, strong, caring, affirming, tender-hearted, warrior! Our family loves you. God smiles on you! Of course I love this post, Kathy! I could I not. A friend of mine once told me that it is a tradition among some orthodox Jews that the father of the child waits until the child is born to announce the childs name, and then whispers it in the ear of the child. The child is the first to hear it uttered. I have not researched this to know if it is correct, but I love the truths held in what my firend shared with me about this. My earthy father was mostly absent in my life emotionally. When he was present, my sensitive nature as a child put a wedge between us, and subsequently, I was unable to feel much connection with him, and still struggle with that connection today, even though he is no longer with us. But the result of that personal story is that God the ultimate Father continues to reveal to me, time after time, and grace after grace, His complete and full love for me, even despite my unfulfilled longings as a child. When I felt God was leading my wife and I to name our son “Jay-my-son”, not only did I feel it was specifially for him in affirming his existance as his earthly father’s son, but I also felt as though our Abba Father, Daddy God, was telling me on a personal level, that every time I said my son’s name, Jamison, I would be hearing my Heavnly Father reaffirm me as His child, and I would be reminded that my name before God is “Jay-my-son”. Words are so powerful! I feel so grateful to Daddy God for bringing you back into my life at this time, Kathy. God knew I needed to be reminded of the truths you have shared here in this post, along with God’s heart behind my son’s name, and God’s love for me. I have over the years at times, through a variety of struggles, lost sight of what I am sharing here, and have not always walked in these truths about our Father. I have been on this homeschool journey now for seven years with my boys, and have up until this year, never attended a homeschool convention, even though they have been in our city each year. The timing never seemed to fit and I just never made it. This year I felt compelled to go and felt even stronger that I must connect with you, Kathy. What’s even more interesting is that I feel very secure in how our homeschooling journey has evolved over the years and didn’t feel the need to purchase any particular homeschool resources at the convention even though I wandered through all the booths. When I finally found your booth … on the very last isle, I felt I had come home. Literally! My wife and I have been struggling lately in our home with finding a balance between correcting with love and have felt for sometime that we were landing most of the time on the side of criticizing without knowing how to change it. It wasn’t until I picked up your booklet and cd on “complimenting and correcting” and “fabulous feedback” that where we have been in error finally made sense. Your explanation of the the difference between criticism and correcting–the one being to point out an err vs. putting right an err–is profound and exactly what our hearts have been longing to hear. All this to say, that during my first visit to your booth over the weekend, I bought your book, and three cd’s. And do you know, that I was so blessed by the material in the booklet I just mentioned that I simply had to come back the next day, even though I didn’t plan to come back to the convention again, just to get my hands on a few more teachings of yours that are centered in things I believe we are all longing to hear from our Heavenly Father. Kathy, I can not tell you how beyond words I am at this moment in thanking God for you and your ministry. Some of the simple but profound truths you teach are exactly what my wife and I have been longing to hear … God’s words of affirmation for us … and how those words in our ears, and resounding in the ears of our children, have the power to positively recreate, affirm, and affect the future of our family and the budding life of our two boys. As you have so wisely said, our words either judge the past, our affect the future. I am so thankful for you my fellow sister in Christ, and so glad had our paths to cross once again. You are an amazing, thoughtful, wise, accepting, word-smart, interesting, joyfilled, strong, caring, affirming, tender-hearted, warrior! Our family loves you. God smiles on you!

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