Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 A few more thoughts on Parents and Kids……I’ve been on vacation for the last week. I told my son today he ought to thank God every day that he was born when he was and not when I was! When I was a kid I had to invent things to do, i.e run outside, build forts, head to the pool, play with friends. For a good portion of our vacation He has been on his “technology apparatuses” . I have heard of parents who limit the time their kids spend on these kind of things. I am not so sure that is helpful, I think I’d take the power cords instead! You see we want our kids to make good decisions. Technology is a part of their life we can’t change that, nor should we. We also need to give them appropriate decision making ability at every age. I agree we should have some guidelines/rules: no technology at the table, you do not use the items when a parent is talking to you , ETC, but when to use technology and how much to use it, you can give them these decisions, here’s how! Charge the device and then take the power cord. When the device runs out of power they are done! You control the power cord and have shared with them you will only give them the cord once a day, or every few days, or once a week. This way they have to decide if they want to play now or later cause once the power is up, they are done. This will place some decision making power in their hands and teach them they if they blow the power all in one sitting they are done. I’d also suggest you give your kids an allowance! I never dealt with my kids asking me for stuff as we walked through a store. They had their own money and could spend it on what they wanted to….but when it was gone…they were done! I gave then $1.00 for every year they were old so at 5 years old they got $5.00 a week, at16 years old they got $16.00. One half of their allowance had to be saved in 5 categories, Tithe, Savings, Birthday, Christmas, Vacation, 10% in each category. So when we go to church have something to give. As we are on vacation my son does not ask me for money but has his own and has to make decisions about what he wants to spend it on. He really understands money does not grow on trees cause when it is gone….he’s done! We have got to empower our kids in such a way that they have to make decisions within the boundaries we have set up. THAT is life my friends and our kids need to learn to live in reality no matter what age they are. If we continue to hand our kids all that they want we will have to support their debt habit after they leave our home to keep up with the unreal lifestyle. If we continue to make all the decisions for them we have no right to get angry if they make bad ones at 30+ years old. It is our job as parents to train our children in a Godly Life, not HAND THEM WHAT OUR CULTURE SEEMS TO DEMAND! The culture could care less about our kids they just want to make money off of them! Have a Great day! Let’s talk again in the AM. Scott
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:29:59 +0000
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