One of the most famous Biblical quotes talks to the children and tells them to "Honor your father and your mother" but one of my favorite scriptures speaks to fathers.
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." -Ephesians 6:4
A criticism I hear often from teens is that their parents wield all the power. They don't feel their parents listen to them or explain to them why they make the decisions they do. They don't feel like their parents understand them and they don't understand their parents.
God gave each child to their specific parents and the Lord intends for those parents to be in charge. He tells the children that they are to be respectful and listen and obey their parents. However, the Father also tells us parents to be gentle with our children, to speak to them in love and nurture them with the truth tempered by grace as the Lord does with us, His children.
If we speak in grace and with respect to our children, we honor our Father in Heaven. When we share with our children why we don't want them to go out, we model the respect we are to have for the Father.
We are to be firm in the truth and unyielding in moral character but we should do so in a gentle and loving way just as our Father in Heaven gives grace to us.
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JoJo Tabares holds a degree in Speech Communication, but it is her humorous approach to communication skills which has made her a highly sought-after Christian speaker and writer. Her articles appear in homeschool publications, such as Homeschool Enrichment Magazine and The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, which also endorses her Say What You Mean curricula. You can also find JoJo on web sites such as Crosswalk.com and Dr.Laura.com. For more information on communication FUNdamentals and Christian-based communication studies for the whole family, please visit http://www.ArtofEloquence.com
I was raised by two Atheists of Jewish heritage, married a non practicing Catholic and became a non denominational Christian due, in part, to some Amway meetings and a Jehovah's Witness who came to my door. My purple crayon writes with humor and almost always a little out of the lines.
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This blog is my creative and fun way of sharing my thoughts on communication skills relating mostly to homeschooling and sharing and defending the faith. It also reveals a bit about how the Lord took this shy Agnostic girl and allowed her to find her voice and her purpose, a zany voice to the Christian community with insight as to what unbelievers need to hear about Christ Jesus.
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"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver." -Proverbs 25:11
