The most effective parenting doesn't come from "amping up the pressure," but from shifting our own hearts first.
Parenting
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Who Is Raising Your Children? Parenting in the Age of Outsourcing
Every family situation is different and requires its own discernment. However, it is worth asking: am I working mainly to pay someone else to raise my children?
Some Examples of Godly Parenting
Parenting is a significant and soul-stretching challenge. God has a purpose within those challenges. He wants us as parents to be changed, refined, and enlarged even as we strive to grow our children.
Better and Poorer Kinds of Guidance in Parenting
Often, we do the wrong things in parenting because we have lost sight of our real objectives.
Godly Parenting: Honoring Both Justice and Mercy
Children are born innocent but a fallen world works furiously to teach them fallen ways. Our parenting can feed the natural child or nourish the child of Christ. Teaching law in a context of love is the way to do the latter.
The Single Biggest Factor in Parenting
The work of parenting is more than guidance or nurture alone; it is a sacred invitation to be changed by the love of Jesus Christ.
Parenting: Having Compassion for Your Child’s Humanness
Children do what they do for reasons that make sense to them. When we think that their behavior is crazy or irrational, we do not understand them. Our indignation at their irrationality is a sign that we need to stretch our compassion.
