Training Children Making Mistakes

 

Training Children

Making Mistakes

 

 

Training is all about discipline with Love

It starts with parents who love enough to be disciplined 

Disciplined parents producing disciplined children

Love covers a multitude of sins

Every parent makes mistakes

The spirit is willing and the flesh is weak

We all have weaknesses

Love must be the foundation of all we do

If so, when we build things that fall

 They fall on the foundation of love

When things fall on the foundation of love

 Mercy is there, giving the ability to rebuild again

 

 

 

Training Children

Making Mistakes

 

March of 2023, Sandy was in a nursing home

after surgery for a broken hip…

 

 The woman in the room with Sandy asked

after several days of watching our lives…

 

“Do you ever get ticked off at each other?”

 

I gave her a quick answer at the time…

 

 But a few days later I told her…

 

I get ticked off at Sandy
and she gets ticked off at me.

 

We do get angry with each other.

 

  But we choose to love.

 

There are things Sandy doesn’t like about me 

and the same is true about me.

 

But we choose to focus on making every day

a good day

 

That happens as we cover what we don’t like with love.

 

So yes…

 

 I know there are things Sandy doesn’t like about me

and I will not change.

 

There are things I don’t like about Sandy

that will not change.

 

Those things are big things.

 

But we have chosen to make our love bigger

and that is why we have celebrated

over 51 years of marriage.

 

As a result…

 

 Our children and grandchildren could have never

had as good of lives as they do,

had we chose to divorce.

 

So, training up a child in the way

they should go starts with modeling Love.

 

We love because we want to.

 

We also love because we have to.

 

God is love and we should be the same.

 

Training up a child means teaching

them the basic skills of life like…

 

 Cooking, laundry, organizing, cleaning,
how to manage money, etc.

 

Training up a child means teaching skills

that will help land a job or run their own business.

 

Good parents know how to make love practical

with skills, and character in everyday life.

 

If you don’t teach them as parents…

 

 The world will force them into slavery.

 

I grew up in poverty

and I have watched those who grew up in homes

with parents who had more than mine.

 

I noticed those parents know the work

and responsibility it takes to be successful.

 

Their children were trained to be successful.

 

People who learn disciplines

and how to relate to others.

 

It is not that poorer parents

cannot do the same things.

 

  This is not to say all wealthy parents

who train up their children are successful.

 

What I am saying…

 

 Is this word “Training” is key to success.

 

If a child is trained in being organized…

 

As an adult, they will have the knowledge to use

those organizational skills in their home and work.

 

If the child is trained in communication skills…

 

As an adult, they will understand others

and others will be able to understand them.

 

Many adults today are living in bondage

because they do not have the skills for life.

 

If you are a parent who does everything

and gives everything to your children beware…

 

 They may grow up to be dependent on you and others.

 

If you are a parent too busy to train

your children in the basics of life…

 

 Not being available to make sure

they do what they are to do…

 

They may grow up thinking they can sneak by,

or talk their way out of everything.

 

Make sure, as a parent, you see that your child

came into this world with a clean slate.

 

You are the one who will influence

what goes on that slate.

 

God has endowed each person with gifts and abilities.

 

It is up to you to discover those things

and develop them in your children.

 

Remember it is up to you to train up your child.

 

 Use others who can help you and avoid

and remove those who will not help your child

learn and develop according to what God shows you.

 

It is not enough to lead your children

through the wilderness

or leave them in the bondage of Egypt.

 

Train your children how to live in the Promise Land…

 

To their full potential.

 

 Where they will know God’s love

and have reason to love Him.

 

And how to love others as they love themselves.

 

Training is all about discipline with Love.

 

It starts with parents who love enough to be disciplined.

 

Disciplined parents producing disciplined children.

 

Love covers a multitude of sins.

 

Every parent makes mistakes.

 

The spirit is willing and the flesh is weak.

 

We all have weaknesses.

 

Love must be the foundation of all we do.

 

If so, when we build things that fall…

 

They fall on the foundation of love.

 

When things fall on the foundation of love…

 

 Mercy is there giving the ability to rebuild again.

 

Scripture Reading

 

Proverbs 22:6

 

6 Train a child in the way he should go,

and when he is old he will not turn from it.

NIV