Keeping Your Children Safe
So you want to take your innocent little children, wind them up in bubble wrap, and keep away from the perils of this time, and the perils AWAY from them. Me too. Can't be done, though, people!
I warn you right now, my life, philosophy and thus this blog will have a religious background. The fact is that Adam fell, and thus brought sin, death and most importantly, Free Agency, to his offspring, which includes you, me and most importantly, OUR CHILDREN. No amount of prayer and fasting can take that away from them.
Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, depending on your life view, we also can't take away from them the CONSEQUENCES of their choices, and, listen up, this is important: nor SHOULD we. Not even when they are tiny. Our Church believes that young children, up to age eight, are too immature and unknowlegable to be aware of and responsible for their right and wrong choices. I believe that when they are very tiny, that is true, but as they grow, they hopefully LEARN about right and wrong by being carefully taught by their parents, and most importantly, learning that ALL choices, good and bad, have inescapable consequences, and being allowed to SUFFER those consequences.
Unfortunately, our modern society has raised a whole generation of pampered, entitled children and young adults who believe that they deserve and should be given every little thing their hearts desire, and RIGHT NOW! They have turned into charming, fun-to-be-around monsters.
Future blogs will talk about how to change that, from in fancy through young adulthood.
Stand by, it will be mind blowing for most of us!
Stephanie
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I don't think your view on child rearing have much to do with your religious background but everything to do with a failure to accept parental responsibility. You don't need to even believe in God to know that we as a society have begun to fail our children miserably. I know from my own parental failings that most young adults have no idea of the amount of sacrifice is necessary to raise children to have good strong values and to be courageous and true to themselves in a world immersed in chasing empty goals. That said I applaud the theme of your website and think that you are truly trying to fill an immense void. Parents need that which they are lacking which is someone to mentor without judgement and to shine a light into the darkness that blinds the way. Best of luck to you and I am following you and available to help anyway I can.