What Every Child Needs, Part 3

Jul 28, 2014 by Jim and Jerolyn Bogear

 

Last week we began a 4-part series on What Every Child Needs. You can read here the Tuesday and Thursday posts.

 

Speaking of instruction, as parents we believe we are very responsible to apply those biblical life principles to their lives.

This means we model more than we tell, for teaching and training to happen. Applying it to their lives is priority through us living it out in front of them.

Love this statement from Robert Fulghum, “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”What are we showing our children? How are we teaching them to obey, learn responsibility, speak the truth, follow the rules, be polite, and on and on, if we are first not living this out before them ourselves?

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