The Parenting Series | 3 Challenges Every Child Needs to Overcome
Wednesday, August 8th 2018
Parenting is nothing more than leadership!
Proverbs 24:3-4 NIV
By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.
Parenting is nothing more than leadership!
1 Timothy 3:5 NLT
For if a man cannot manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church?
Proverbs 22:6 NLT
Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.
Challenge #1: The Pace of Life
Romans 12:1-2 NLT
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Challenge #2: Kids Growing Older, Younger
1 Corinthians 13:11 NLT
When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
Challenge #3: Status Vs Substance
Luke 12:15 NLT
Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”
1 Timothy 6:6-7 NET
Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit. For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.
As a parent you are the leaders, you set the tone, you set the agenda, you set the direction, and ultimately you set your children on the course for their lives!
What is happening is that as certain kids grow older younger, the other children feel pressured to match them for the sake of popularity and acceptance. Then the children whose parents want them to stay kids become the targets of bullying and social rejection, because the parents of the kids who are 8 but want to be 14 not only play along, but encourage it!
Paul refers to the process of growing up, and it is a process. When the process is either shortened, interrupted, or stopped altogether there is a massive domino effect in kids lives. It ends up stunting their ability to actually ‘grow up’ , today it is commonly accepted that adolescents goes well into your twenty’s, some even saying until your 30! The lack of a genuine childhood leads to a lack of direction (or ability to make decisions) and a generous amount of apathy!