Who “wears the pants” in your family?
Jess at Making Home has written a fabulous post entitled
“When the person that “wears the pants” in the family is a size 2T”.
Here’s a few excerpts to encourage you to head over to her blog and read what she has to say:
What concerns me is that I see too many children raised in Christian families who are not taught and expected to obey. They are allowed to dishonor their parents with their yelling, tantrums, and emotional displays. They are allowed to intentionally and brazenly disobey their parents, without repercussions of any kind. They are encouraged in selfishness and materialism by parents who don’t set limits and stand by them. They are outright rude to siblings, guests and adults, and it goes uncorrected.
We have less children than any generation before us, and more parenting advice at our fingertips, and yet we parent them worse.
What does matter, biblically speaking, is that you train your child in the way he should go. What does matter, biblically speaking, is that you teach your child to obey you (his/her parents) in everything. What does matter, biblically speaking, is that foolishness is driven out from your child’s heart and is replaced with a fear of God and an understanding of what the Lord has done for us, and for this world.
