I’ve always believed our children are quite literally on loan from God. We have the responsibility to do everything we can as parents to help our children get to heaven. Our children’s purpose here on earth is to be about their heavenly father’s business.
As a college professsor, I meet a wide variety of young adults whose parents have raised them with different values. Many of the college students I meet are struggling to find a faith of their own and a place and a purpose in God’s kingdom. However, I occasionally meet students whose parents understood they were on loan from God. When I meet students with a faith of their own and an understanding of their purpose on this earth, I am curious about how their parents raised them.
I learned a wonderful parenting strategy by talking to two college students and their parents. When these college students were growing up, their parent used time driving in the car to teach spiritual values through telling short fictional stories about other youth. Once the parent had told the story, he would ask his children to identify if the behavior or motivation of the character in the story represented good choices or bad choices.
As young adults, these children vividly remember the experience of exploring good choices and bad choices. A father created teachable moments by talking about spiritual values with his children while they were driving together in the car. Those teachable moments are still there for all of us today if we will unplug our Ipods, our DVD players, and our other electronic distractions in the car and tune in to developing a meaningful conversation with our children.
After all, our children are on loan from God.
I agree with you and would want to make the most of my time left. I would also want to leave with no regrets.
I would appreciate our linking to each other’s websites if that’s ok with you!
Donna
It was so interesting story I am a Teacher of 3 grade in a private school in Kosova and I thing like you dear Dr.Beth we must thing about these children with these problems in their house we must help them in any way they need, I hope you understand my English language .
Key of a positive world and our future is NOT stop thinking of problems any problems of children in world because is not like you work with happy and loved child and from permisive family like you work with children with represive family , we must help them so early not to be late for them they are most important thing in this world but we must not just think but we must do that what is the best for them in practice , to be their live more easy and not so hard because how we educate them like infant or from prenatal periode they will be like these a factor in their social life and will grow their family in that atmosphere with a positive or negative influence in this wonderful world .
But I see that we make them like a robot and not like a human been we work, we dont have time for them to love to learn them how to live their life so lovely WE WORK ALL DAY but we dont think never for whom we do that money and everything for our robots , or for our lovely child …………………