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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Training the Child

Every year when school starts my phone begins to ring.  The conversations to follow are often about the influences and pressures on students to do things they might not want to do!  The home visit usually follows as well.  My encouragement to parents is that each day to do a quick run through on how your kid’s day went.  We often find ourselves much too busy to even talk about the day.  Especially homes with multiple kids, this issue doubles and triples.  One thing I have always told parents is know the names of the kids that your child is hanging with.  Hanging out brings influence, I can measure the character of a student simply by who they hang with.  Most parents are too busy to investigate who influences their kids, they often make the mistake of believing that if the kid comes from a good home, then his influence will be good to. Satan uses this trap a lot, know the kids your child hangs out with and you might begin to learn a lot more about your own child.  As a youth minister it’s my desire to help families see the importance of developing faith talks as a normal part of family conversation, its immeasurable when considering the spiritual growth of a child.  I really believe that students in faithful homes will look back and contribute their relationship to Christ, and their growth in Christ, to the spiritual efforts provided by the parents. 

'Train up a child in the way he should go'
Proverbs 22:6

In Him,
Randy Beggs
Youth Pastor

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