“Discipline your children while there is hope, otherwise you will ruin their lives.” Prov. 19:18 Put your child’s happiness first as the guiding value in your home Parenting Insights: Happiness is a transitory, conditional, feeling based on circumstances, it is not a value, therefore, we should not strive to build a parental relationship based on [...]
Godly character is consistently doing the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason Introduction: Respect, kindness, honesty, courage, perseverance, self-discipline, compassion, generosity, dependability. Most parents want to instill these kinds of character traits in their children. Of course, this is often easier said than done. Shaping character takes [...]
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” I Cor. 13:11 Emotions are God-given. In and of themselves, they are not sinful, but beneficial. The word ‘emotion’ in Latin is motere, which means [...]
“And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Luke 2:52 “Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and also with man.” I Sam.2:26 It is now understood that a person’s EQ is far more important than one’s intelligence (IQ) in [...]
“To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.” Prov. 29:15 Dealing with a defiant child can be a maddening experience. If this behavior isn’t managed early on, it can turn into a parent’s worst nightmare, namely, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (i.e., a pattern of an angry/irritable mood, argumentative and [...]
Childhood isn’t stress-free. Kids take tests, learn new information, change schools, change neighborhoods, get sick, get braces, encounter bullies, make new friends and occasionally get hurt by those friends. What helps kids emotionally navigate these kinds of challenges is resilience. The word resilience comes from the Latin verb – resilire – “to jump back.” In [...]
By the age of four it’s common for children to already be carrying emotional pain. By age eight, many have already found an escape behavior. On average, it takes fifteen years from the first involvement in an escape behavior to when that person hits bottom (i.e., powerless over the behavior; lacking the ability to stop.) Emotional pain [...]
What is self-control? Self-control is the ability to stop and think before acting. Self-control leads to good choices, which are the building blocks of self-esteem. NOTE: The determining factor of success is self-control, not self-esteem. Why is self-control important? Self-control gives your child a much better chance of making a good choice in a given [...]
Laying a good foundation during a child’s formative years is critically important in determining who and what they will become as an adult. Key Thought: When a father clearly understands and consistently carries out his God-given role, his children tend to excel in the areas of character, conduct, and achievement. Corollary: When a father abandons his God-given [...]
American families are in a state of constant motion. Kids seem to always have someplace they are supposed to be. The typical day for kids begins early and ends late, which means the parents’ day does too. There is school, sports, entertainment, friends, hobbies, church, youth group activities, and on and on it goes. Everyone [...]
