Category: Parenting

Motivation Monday

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“No one can be truly good and great who has not learned to yield his will, first to his parents, and then to God, and to obey with alacrity. Those who learn to obey are the only ones who will be fitted to command.

Mother Walking with Child

By learning the lessons of obedience, children are not only honoring their parents and lightening their burdens, but they are pleasing One higher in authority. “Honour thy father and thy mother” is a positive command. Children who treat their parents with disrespect, and disregard their wishes, not only dishonor them, but break the law of God. The earlier the will is made to yield to the will of the parents, and the more complete the submission, the less difficult it will be to yield to the requirements of God. And none can hope for the love and blessing of God who do not learn obedience to His commandments, and stand up firmly against temptation.”

The Youth’s Instructor, September 24, 1884.

Guest Post ~ Teaching Children to Choose the Right

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mosesHebrews 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

One of the most important things that I wanted to teach my children when they were very young was how to make decisions. I gave them opportunities to choose. For example, I let them choose the types of food or clothes they wanted…without interference.  Mind you, this was  not on all matters.

I am a strong believer in individuality and freedom of expression (guided by God’s principles and law).

In this world, children as well as adults, have to choose. We must choose to walk in the path of Christ or the path of the world.

One of the best ways to teach children to make right decisions is reading about Bible characters who chose the right amidst very trying times. I think of Esther and the courage she displayed as well as the three Hebrew boys. There is Daniel, Joseph and Moses. This list goes on and on.

“The Bible heroes of faith are to be our example…” The Ellen G. White 1888 Materials, Page 477

Are you allowing room for your little ones to make small decisions?  Do you teach them about the Bible heroes?

~Thanks Tonya, for sharing with us today!  You can normally find Tonya blogging at Momma’s Sunshine.

Motivation Monday

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“Parents are entitled to a degree of love and respect which is due to no other person. God Himself, who has placed upon them a responsibility for the souls committed to their charge, has ordained that during the earlier years of life, parents shall stand in the place of God to their children. And he who rejects the rightful authority of his parents, is rejecting the authority of God.

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The fifth commandment requires the children not only to yield respect, submission, and obedience to their parents, but also to give them love and tenderness, to lighten their cares, to guard their reputation, and to succor and comfort them in old age.”

Patriarchs and Prophets, 308.

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Mother and Son Reading Bible Together

“If it was essential for Moses to embody the commandments in sacred song, so that as they marched in the wilderness, the children could learn to sing the law verse by verse, how essential it is at this time to teach our children God’s Word!”

The Review and Herald, September 8, 1904.

Motivation Monday

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“True happiness in this life and in the future life depends upon obedience to a “Thus saith the Lord.” … Let Christ’s life be the pattern. Satan will devise every possible means to break down this high standard of piety as one altogether too strict. It is your work to impress upon your children in their early years the thought that they are formed in the image of God.

Young Couple with Two Children (8-12) Walking on the Beach

Christ came to this world to give them a living example of what they all must be, and parents who claim to believe the truth for this time are to teach their children to love God and to obey His law. This is the greatest and most important work that fathers and mothers can do.”

Child Guidance, 80, 81.

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Father Watching His Infant Sleep

“A noble, all-round manhood does not come by chance. It is the result of the molding process of character building in the early years of youth, and a practice of the law of God in the home.”

Child Guidance, 42.

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“Parents should never lose sight of their own responsibility for the future happiness of their children. Isaac’s deference to his father’s judgment was the result of the training that had taught him to love a life of obedience. While Abraham required his children to respect parental authority, his daily life testified that that authority was not a selfish or arbitrary control, but was founded in love, and had their welfare and happiness in view.”

Christian Education, 229