Today's promise: God celebrates family
What was the most
effective discipline you have experienced?
"Now his father,
King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, "What
are you going?"
1 Kings 1:6 NLT
Rebounding skills
Suppose you get home
from grocery shopping and discover your six-year-old is eating candy you didn't
buy. It might be tempting to just scold him, send him to his room, and let it
go at that. After all, it's only worth a dollar, and you're tired. But you'd
miss an opportunity to turn this "miss" into a second chance.
It would be better to
take away any uneaten candy, put your little shoplifter back in the car, drive
to the grocery store, hunt up the manager, and tell your kid to apologize. Pay
for the candy and deduct it from the child's allowance. Then, if the culprit is
truly sorry, be sure to express your forgiveness — and God's forgiveness, too.
You've just boxed out
the opposition and put your kid in position to rightly rebound. Because there
will come another time in that grocery store or when he's passing a coveted
pair of Nikes or — who knows?
Ricky Birdsong in Coaching
Your Kids in the Game of Life
The Bible tells us that
parents have the primary responsibility for the spiritual development of our
children. And nowhere is the job given only to mothers and grandmothers. As
Moses told the people of Israel, "Repeat [the command of God] again and
again to your children" (Deut. 6:7). Why not begin today?
Adapted from Men of Integrity Devotional Bible with
devotionals by the editors of Men of Integrity magazine (Christianity
Today, Intl), Tyndale House Publishers (2002), p 391
It is easier to build
boys than to mend men.
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