An Opportunity To Raise Kids As A Parent

Having a baby changes everything!

It is a great thing when God sends a little child into a home!  Right from the start of becoming a parent, our lives would change forever - both for good or bad, joy or sorrow, honor or disgrace, comfort or worry.  The moment you've become a parent, whether at age seventeen or at age forty-five, a new phase of your life has been opened.

The newly arrived baby in our home may only be as little and as tiny as we think but he or she is already a complete, real person.  With mind capable of thinking, a brain for reasoning, ability to express strong feelings.  He or she has power of communication - verbal and non-verbal.  A really full-blown person, as peculiar from everybody else in this world as one snowflake is from another snowflake.

You have  great part and role to play as a parent in influencing your child, whether for good or evil.

Training a child is really an awesome responsibility!  We should bare in mind that a little child would worth more than jewels and precious stones in this world.   If sometimes we worry because we had so much riches in our homes for one night, we should not take lightly the parental responsibility we have over our children at home.

How do you respond to this challenge? Shrug your shoulders and say, "It's no tougher than when I grew up, and I made it - so they can, too." Or do you say, "I know it's a tough job being a parent, but I'm determined to find God's help in being the mother or father He wants me to be."

God is speaking to today's generation parents: "Teach a young child how he should behave so that when he grow up, he will not forget those things that you have taught".