We Can Do This

Parents!  We can do this.

We can take our parenting fears to Christ.  In fact, if we don’t, we’ll take our fears out on our kids!

Fear turns some parents into paranoid prison guards who monitor every minute, check the background of every friend.  They stifle growth and communicate distrust.  A family with no breathing room suffocates a child.

Fear can also create permissive parents.  For fear their child will feel too confined, too fenced in, they lower all boundaries.  High on hugs and low on discipline.   They don’t realize that appropriate discipline is an expression of love. 

Permissive parents.  Paranoid parents.  How can we avoid the extremes?

We pray!  Prayer is the saucer where parental fears are poured to cool.  Each time a parent prays, Christ responds.  His big message to moms and dads?

Bring your children to Me.  Pray!  Raise them in a greenhouse of prayer!

“Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire. Proverbs 29:17″

From: Fearless