Teach Your Children!
"Discipline your children, and they will
give you peace; they will bring you the
delights you desire."
Proverbs 29: 17
Phyllis Diller once said, “Cleaning your house while your kids
are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops
snowing.” In the same vein, Jerry Seinfeld said, “Having a two-
year-old is like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.”
Parenting has its sweet moments—it’s what we live for!—
but between them are some messes. That’s why parents
are responsible to use such times to create self-discipline
in the lives of their children.
Newborns have no self-discipline at all. They cry when they want;
go to the bathroom when they want; sleep when they want. We are
not born with self-control, but we are born with the
capacity to learn
to manage our habits and emotions. When we discipline children,
our goal is to teach them self-discipline.
As a parent raising children, at times it seems as if we
are constantly repeating ourselves working toward the
goal of obedience.
Remember, God does the same with us if we'll only listen.
Let’s teach our children the important habits of self-control
as we continue to learn the same from our Heavenly Father.
"Educate your children to self-control…
and you have done much to abolish
misery from their future."
Daniel Webster
