Wise Parenting

Wise parenting is cumulative. If you are struggling to know where to start, begin with focusing making wise decisions. Speak to your children about God's wrath against sin. Teach your children to listen. Good listening doesn't come easily so you need to put effort into teaching them to listen before they reach their teens and then leave home. Poor listeners will struggle at school, in the church, in their careers, in their marriages and in all types of interpersonal relationships. Bound up in failure to listen is a sinful unwillingness to hear. Teach your children about good friendships, family relationships, and how to distinguish wise people from fools. Consequences do follow actions cumulatively. Be open with your children about your own failures and the consequences you have suffered. Connect disobedience with pain for your children. You do that because you know that painful consequences will eventually catch up with your children. Teach them what it important in life--a God-centred worldview. This is wisdom. Pursue wisdom yourself. If you don't pursue wisdom, but rather live a foolish life, how can you expect your children to see it as beautiful and long for it?