RAISING CHILDREN - who writes the script for your children's lives?
As a parent, you're the head of your family, and occupy an unbelievably powerful role in shaping the tone, texture, mood and quality of your family unit. Creating an environment that generates feelings of safety and belongingness, nurturing your child's individuality to ensure s/he becomes the unique person God intended, and having a plan and objective in mind for what successful parenting is are some of the things you will want to consider when raising children.
Children have four basic needs:
- eye contact
- physical contact
- focused attention
- discipline
When these four areas are met, your child's emotional tank gets full and the result is a better connection between you and your child, where the child is more eager to please. Millions of children world-wide grow up with parents who do not know and who do not fulfill their God-ordained roles. If you want successful and productive children, you have to commit yourself to acquiring the insight and skills necessary to live the values that you know in your heart are so important to raising children.
The critical factor in raising children is an unconditional and heartfelt love and devotion for them, but it takes much more than love and good intentions because you aren't the only influence in your child's life.
What we need is a really good guidance system in raising children and the tools to make that happen. Create within your home the ethics of your faith in God and the bible, and this will be the guidance needed to socialize your children in a way so that they become immune to the many seductive promises of instant gratification, false realities and provocative lifestyles of todays fast paced world. FamilyLife offers conferences that emphasise the responsibility that God bestows on us as parents so that we can help our children develop a deeper spiritual focus. |
