Pastor of Grow Ministry @ The Crossing
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Everyone can be a BETTER parent!
I have two children, Jackson who just turned 8 and Mia who just started kindergarten. They are the joys of my life. There are very few things that are more precious to me than my children. I love having uno tournaments, teaching them to swim and enjoying the everyday moments. However, being a parent is hard. Everyday we make decisions for our children, some good and some we wish we could take back. Some of us had great parents but many of us had poor parenting models. Being a great parent doesn't happen by accident. The Bible tells us to 'train our children up in the way the way they should go so as they grow older they will not depart from it.' How are you doing training your children up? Need some encouragement? Then sign up for our FUEL class on PARENTING. It will help you point your children back to God. Sign up at www.thecrossing.com/fuel
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A testimony for parents:
ReplyDeleteIn the years I was I young parent, I will be the first to admit my sons were not provided with the safest and sanest of people to influence their young and impressionable minds. But being that I was not totally out of it and unconscienitious of my children's need for nurture and security, I did all I thought to create an atmosphere of growth and learning in our home.
My boys saw me dancing and singing out loud alot, they in the beginnig were stunned but in time they joined in and we formed lines and danced and sang conga lines around the apartment. My oldest son used to love taking apart the small electrical appliances-he did this often, stealthily and usually before we got up in the mornings. After the second time purchases of both iron and toster, we got over being mad at him, scorning him and allowed him to express how he was able to do it, and assisted him with learning how to reassemble the items.
At bedtimes, they LOVED LOVED LOVED being read to, and usually to my shagren the same books over into the double digits! But they loved them and had memorized the words with me. I got joy knowing they knew when the page was going to turn that the picture was going to make them laugh or put their heads under the cover.
When they got older, every morning before piling them into the car to take them to school, I'd give them a WORD OF THE DAY. It was a word ine of them randomly selected from the dictionary, the rule was to use that word 5 times during the day.
The outcomes of my parenting today are as follows;
1 son is in the entertainment field. He is lyrical, rythmic and loves to play SCRABBLE!
The other son is into computer scienc, information technology, a walking encyclodia, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHER & writes poetry.
Both have broad demanding social skill, can cook and have a sense of the realities of spirituality in their life.
Not that they are PERFECT beings at their age, I still consider myself to be quite BLESSED as a mother due to the fact I have yet to this day had to go visit my sons behind prison walls.
Great story Denise!! LOVED IT!! Thanks for sharing that!
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