Over on my Get Serious blog (link on the left), I was commenting on what a typical evangelical Christian tends to look like...generalized, of course. In the process I mentioned that we often make idols out of our children. I suppose this is the blog on which that topic ought to be fleshed out further...and I'll have to do it at another time (getting late and have to earn a living in the morning).
But some questions to ponder (Each is linked to its particular answer):
1) Where is our focus when we are raising our children?
2) For what purpose are we raising our children?
3) That purpose will be borne out in how we go about raising our children. What, exactly, is our parenting methodology?
4) By our parenting methodology, where do our children learn to focus?
5) How important is your child's self-esteem?
6) Could the answers to these questions have something to do with why today's teens and young adults are so self-centered?
7) Could the answers to these questions also have anything to do with the huge number of young adults raised in Evangelical Christian homes walking away from their faith?
2) For what purpose are we raising our children?
3) That purpose will be borne out in how we go about raising our children. What, exactly, is our parenting methodology?
4) By our parenting methodology, where do our children learn to focus?
5) How important is your child's self-esteem?
6) Could the answers to these questions have something to do with why today's teens and young adults are so self-centered?
7) Could the answers to these questions also have anything to do with the huge number of young adults raised in Evangelical Christian homes walking away from their faith?
Hmmmm....
2 comments:
Oh, great post Charley! Looking forward to more on this!
Okay this is a post within a post. Links to other links. I look forward to coming back and reading each of the links.
I also wrote a post called From Honeymoon to Happy Home
that shares my personal story of overcoming the idol of family and children.
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