I am reading the book "Family Driven Faith" by Voddie Baucham that was recommended to me by my friend Valerie. There is so much that I am reading that is confirming and solidifying my beliefs about child rearing. First of all, we allow others to dilute our ideas about how we should raise our children. I love my husband and my friends, but there have been times that I have went against my better judgement and allowed certain things in my kids lives based on the advise of my well meaning loved ones. We are not stifling our children just because we do not allow them to do the same things that other (non-christian) kids are allowed to do. I have been told that my children will be abnormal or underdeveloped socially because I won't allow them to watch certain movies or television shows. As a young person, I was constantly being told that I was naive because of my overprotective parents. I am now realizing that it is those comments that I allow to take root in my mind that have caused destructive behavior in my life and the lives of my children.
The other thing that this book is reminding my of is that children are a gift from God. It is not only our job to train them up in the Lord, but to cherish our times with them. Sometimes I get so focused on my responsibilities of raising them, I forget to cherish them. They are only little for so long, and then that time is over, never to be had again. Deuteronomy 6: 6-9 states : And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Look out Newport boys, mom has new resolve : )
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