Ten Weeks of Summer. One Thing Worth Doing Together
School is out, and the days are already stretching in that slow, golden way they do in June.
Your kids are home. You have about ten weeks ahead of you. And somewhere between the pool trips and the later bedtimes and the question they will ask you at least forty times ("what are we doing today?"), there is a window most parents do not know they have.
Ten weeks is a long time to let a child sit with what the world has already started saying about them.
Here is what I mean.
From the moment a child walks into a classroom, lines up for a team, or scrolls past someone else's highlight reel, they are collecting information about themselves. Who is smart. Who is picked first. Who belongs. Who does not. Most of that information is not true. But a child does not know how to sort truth from noise yet. That is our job.
Summer is actually one of the best times to do it. There is no grade to chase, no performance to protect. Just open days and a child who is more available than they might seem.
God Made Me Brilliant was designed for exactly this window.
It is not a sit-down-and-study book. It is a pick-it-up-while-you-have-a-few-minutes book. Each page is built around a simple truth: God made your child with specific gifts, specific curiosities, and a specific design. The occupation on the page is not a prediction about their future career. It is an invitation to see themselves the way God already does.
From A to Z, twenty-six occupations. Twenty-six affirmations. Twenty-six scriptures from the New Living Translation that say the same thing in language older than any classroom or culture: you were made on purpose, for a purpose.
Your child colors it. Works through the word search or the crossword. And somewhere in the middle of that, they are sitting with the idea that the God who made everything made them deliberately.
That is not a small thing to believe about yourself at seven. Or ten. Or twelve.
If you have been looking for something to do together this summer that is not just entertainment, this is it. Not because the activity is elaborate. Because the truth at the center of it is worth repeating until it sticks.
Ten weeks is enough time for something to take root.
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