Monthly Archives: January 2020

“But Mommy, I don’t want to.” Or maybe, it’s “No, Daddy, I won’t.” Sound familiar? These responses are the “cries of resistance” to major principles parents need to set down concerning their families. These principles are called limits. When you think about living and working together as a family, setting limits is vital. Children need …

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If your marriage partner is more intimately involved in your life than anyone else, your children run a close second. You will either reveal or conceal your spirit around your children. With your children in mind, consider this Bible verse: “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor; …

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What do you think is involved in being an effective parent? The Bible tells us in Proverbs 22:6 to “Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (KJV). Now that’s a tall order, and a great responsibility, and there are some positive …

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Jon was 14, a handsome, tough young man. A likable guy, he noticed the pictures on the wall of my office and asked what it took to graduate from the college I’d attended. Someday he wanted to be a professional man, he said. I found out that he liked sports, reading, and church, and had …

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Sisters Kendra and Connie Evans were much alike, except that Kendra was an “ugly duckling” in comparison with her blonde, blue-eyed, younger sister. The difference had been repeatedly noted even in childhood. ”What a perfectly beautiful child!” strangers had exclaimed over Connie. And through the years, Mrs. Evans never tired of hearing this praise for …

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“I love Betty very much and she knows it. But why is she so rebellious?” Mrs. Grant asked me. This mother was a sincere Christian, and her teenage daughter had been a continual object of her prayers. She could not get Betty to study, do a chore right, get along with her brother, or even …

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Isabel Carr complained that her problems began the day she decided to become an obedient wife. “I figured that a Christian woman ought to be subject to her husband,” she said. And what had ten years of obedience produced? Her husband, Glenn, bowled four nights every week. He paid little attention to the children, even …

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