Train up a child in the way he should go: and when
he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs, Chapter 22, verse 6.
If we take the time and are consistent in raising
our children with rules and appropriate consequences, our children will be the
better for it, even in their adult lives.
For one thing, it helps them have parenting skills when they are raising
their own children.
As a teacher, I’ve
seen the product of the opposite. There
was a period of time, when some parents seemed to think that it was important
to cater to a child’s every wish and didn’t have any consequences for breaking
rules. When some of those kids grew up,
they didn’t know how to raise their own children or how to appropriately
discipline them, because those skills were never really modeled for them as
they grew up.
Because this is an example of how I’ve applied this Bible passage to my life, it doesn't necessarily reflect the whole meaning of the passage.
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