Bringing
Up a Moral Child
Bringing Up a Moral Child
“And these words which I command you
today shall be in your
heart. You shall teach them diligently to
your children..” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7).
e saw in the previous chapter
that the two societal
trends of increasing divorce
and placing children in day
care so parents can work have
made it more difficult for
parents to rear moral
children. Both trends have had a
significant impact on
children.
Marriages today seem to be
more fragile than in previous generations.
Fewer people are getting
married,
and when they do, they are
older
than previous generations
were at
their first marriage. Couples
are
also having fewer children
and are
divorcing more.
The breadwinner-and-homemaker
couple with several children
of previous generations has
been
replaced by today’s
postmodern
family—often characterized by
single parents, blended
families,
unmarried or remarried
parents
and two-career households.
With the deconstruction of
stable family units of previous generations,
more single parents have been
economically pressured into placing their
children in day care so they
can have more freedom to earn a living. The
result is that children are
not receiving the training they so desperately
need from their parents—the
adults who can have the most profound
influence on them. Devoid of
moral instruction, many children create
problems for their parents,
teachers, themselves and society at large.
In spite of these negative
trends, many parents, including single
parents, are raising
well-adjusted, moral children who successfully enter
Bringing Up a Moral Child
In spite of some negative
trends, many parents, including
single parents, are raising
well-adjusted, moral children
who successfully enter
adulthood.
and
Family:
God's discipline
Consider that God chastises
Christians out of love for them. Notice
Hebrews 12:5-11: “And you
have forgotten the exhortation that addresses
you as children—‘My child, do
not regard lightly the discipline of the
Lord, or lose heart when you
are punished by him; for the Lord disciplines
those whom he loves, and
chastises every child whom he accepts.’
“Endure trials for the sake
of discipline. God is treating you as
children; for what child is
there whom a parent does not discipline?
If you do not have that
discipline in which all children share, then
you are illegitimate and
not his children. Moreover,
we had human
parents to discipline us,
and we respected them.
Should we not be even
more
willing to be subject to the
Father of
spirits and live?
“For they disciplined
us for a short time as
seemed best to them,
but he disciplines us
for our good, in order that
we may share his holiness. Now, discipline
always seems painful rather
than pleasant at the time, but later it yields
the peaceful fruit of
righteousness to those who have been trained by
it” .
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