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Raising Kids
NLT, Parenting Devotional
Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
Deuteronomy 6:7
Carl Breecher and Paul Faulkner wrote, “Many parents believe that all they have to do is learn a few techniques and presto they are good parents. Good parents are basically good people. Our children learn far more from what we do than what we say. All the family devotionals in the world will not help a child’s faith grow if his parents are not themselves committed to the Lord. Parenting grows out of lifestyle.”
The greatest motivational principle in parenting is Children do what children see. That’s why the Old Testament writer instructs that the commandments of God, namely to love God with all our heart and soul and strength, are to be upon our hearts. And we parents are to impress this truth on our children at all times. We are the teacher, the model, the example. Our talk and our walk reflect this value, every hour of every day. Parents are never off duty and can never wait for another time. The foundation that produces healthy, well-balanced, Christlike children begins to take shape when our walk matches our talk.
A former major league baseball superstar remembers a particular childhood lesson. He and his friends and his father were out in their yard, playing ball. They played there regularly, and the grass had really taken a beating as a result. It didn’t look very good anymore unless you were a child looking for a nice place to play baseball.
On this particular day, as the kids and the father were playing in the yard and having a great time, the boy’s mother called out from a window, “Can’t you guys find someplace else to play? You’re killing the grass.”
The father looked at his wife and answered, “Honey, we aren’t raising grass. We’re raising kids!” (Tony Evans)
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded. They are unfolded through parental leadership, instruction, and modeling. When we fulfill the assignment, then the foundation begins to take shape.
NLT, Parenting Devotional
Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up.
Deuteronomy 6:7
Carl Breecher and Paul Faulkner wrote, “Many parents believe that all they have to do is learn a few techniques and presto they are good parents. Good parents are basically good people. Our children learn far more from what we do than what we say. All the family devotionals in the world will not help a child’s faith grow if his parents are not themselves committed to the Lord. Parenting grows out of lifestyle.”
The greatest motivational principle in parenting is Children do what children see. That’s why the Old Testament writer instructs that the commandments of God, namely to love God with all our heart and soul and strength, are to be upon our hearts. And we parents are to impress this truth on our children at all times. We are the teacher, the model, the example. Our talk and our walk reflect this value, every hour of every day. Parents are never off duty and can never wait for another time. The foundation that produces healthy, well-balanced, Christlike children begins to take shape when our walk matches our talk.
A former major league baseball superstar remembers a particular childhood lesson. He and his friends and his father were out in their yard, playing ball. They played there regularly, and the grass had really taken a beating as a result. It didn’t look very good anymore unless you were a child looking for a nice place to play baseball.
On this particular day, as the kids and the father were playing in the yard and having a great time, the boy’s mother called out from a window, “Can’t you guys find someplace else to play? You’re killing the grass.”
The father looked at his wife and answered, “Honey, we aren’t raising grass. We’re raising kids!” (Tony Evans)
Children are not things to be molded but are people to be unfolded. They are unfolded through parental leadership, instruction, and modeling. When we fulfill the assignment, then the foundation begins to take shape.
