What is my Advice on Raising Children?
Take them to church. Teach them about God in your daily life. Discipline them when they disobey your or God’s laws! Set guidelines for them to live by. Don’t be their ‘buddy’, be their parent. It’s great to be good friends with your child but God gave you the responsibility of raising them to know right from wrong and there should be consequences for disobedience of God’s laws and your directions. Make certain your discipline is fitting to their disobedience.
Do not let the children watch TV or play on their phones, etc. all day long. Set times for outside activities and sports or games in permissible weather. Have the family gather for meals. Put away your phone during meal times and converse with your family.
Set a time for daily devotions as a family and teach your children to have a personal ‘quiet’ time with God. This is sometimes difficult due to their activities. Don’t push them into activities they are not interested in pursuing. Do not let them stop with one or two times at a healthy activity. Do have them stay with it, especially if they wanted to start it.
They should be taught that if you begin at anything good, you need to complete that task. Do not do it half-way and do not quit before it is finished.
Children who have chores from 3 or 4 years old are loved! Make sure their first chores are age appropriate, that means that you don’t give a very young child something they will need to learn later. Make their chores things they will come to love, make if FUN. Your child’s biological age is not always the ‘age’ they should begin with certain things. Let it be what they are capable of doing. Add or change the chores as your child grows and advances their capabilities.
I close with: “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
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