Random Thoughts on Parenting
I like lists. Here's one on parenting.
1) Children don't go in straight lines. They change all the time. How your child acts today, may not be the way he acts tomorrow.
2) There are no mistakes in child rearing. Even the "bad" decisions we make and the "bad" things we regret doing, can be used to benefit us and to glorify God.
3) If we give our children to God, we will see them as a gift, both from Him and from us, rather than a possession.
4) If you can't be a "stay at home" mom, your child may be developing a relationship with his caregiver, that develops a trait, that will benefit him, in a way you haven't seen yet.
5) If it won't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.
6) Pick your battles.
7) Your child will be in diapers today and married tomorrow.
8) Great parents have rebellious children.
9) If a child grows up to ask questions and "leave" the church, he may be developing his "own" faith, which is exactly what you want. Questions prove he is searching.
10) It doesn't matter what your child wears. Remember there are happy children living in poverty who have nothing. If this is your biggest issue, kiss your child and say "I love you!"
11) Rebellious children require so much more "unconditional love and attention" than their compliant brothers and sisters, who, they think, are loved more.
12) Most lessons are "caught" rather than taught.
1) Children don't go in straight lines. They change all the time. How your child acts today, may not be the way he acts tomorrow.
2) There are no mistakes in child rearing. Even the "bad" decisions we make and the "bad" things we regret doing, can be used to benefit us and to glorify God.
3) If we give our children to God, we will see them as a gift, both from Him and from us, rather than a possession.
4) If you can't be a "stay at home" mom, your child may be developing a relationship with his caregiver, that develops a trait, that will benefit him, in a way you haven't seen yet.
5) If it won't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.
6) Pick your battles.
7) Your child will be in diapers today and married tomorrow.
8) Great parents have rebellious children.
9) If a child grows up to ask questions and "leave" the church, he may be developing his "own" faith, which is exactly what you want. Questions prove he is searching.
10) It doesn't matter what your child wears. Remember there are happy children living in poverty who have nothing. If this is your biggest issue, kiss your child and say "I love you!"
11) Rebellious children require so much more "unconditional love and attention" than their compliant brothers and sisters, who, they think, are loved more.
12) Most lessons are "caught" rather than taught.
Comments
"And this too shall pass"
Praise God that the colic doesn't last forever AND that He gave me Martha Ellen to help remind me of that.