Disciple Your Children Intentionally, Making a Timeless Investment

Disciple Your Children Intentionally, Making a Timeless Investment

You don't need to be a perfect Christian to disciple your teens.

Nobody's perfect, even and especially Christians.  And you don't need to be a perfect Christian in discipling your teens and it doesn't require you to be perfect either in helping your teen to become an authentic follower of Jesus Christ.

It can and should be a natural, caring, and even fun experience!

This means that in leading your teens to become mature in their Christian life, it doesn't have to become a form of torture.  If in the process it feels like a straitjacket, a knife fight, or a migraine, there is something wrong.  Being a spiritual mentor to your teenager can and should be a natural, caring, even fun experience that benefits both you and your child - for eternity.

But you will need to be intentional about it!

Because in this world where we live in, nothing happen by accident or by chance.  Even our Great God is an "intentional" God.  His intentions and motives are for our own best.

The same is also true in discipling our teens.  We need to be intentional, and anything as somber-sounding as "intentional discipling" has to be hard and unpleasant, doesn't it?

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Teach your children how to be thankful in everything

One of the best attitude to teach and mold into the character of our children is gratitude.

It is but natural for children to have receive something and then forget to thank the giver, and that would truly hurt the giver!  Imagine if you are the giver and doesn't received even a simple thank you.

And worst is, often times, it is but natural for children to complain and grumble in spite of everything!

I often reminded my kids to be really, really, really thankful and grateful in everything, as in EVERYTHING.  Even I myself, practice what I am teaching my kids.  Every now and then if someone did something, a service of any kind, even store clerk, or a bus driver, or a security guard or policeman, or the mailman, and other kinds of jobs people have, I really never forget to say even a simple, heartfelt "thank you."

In the passage of the Scriptures from 1 Corinthians 10:10 we could read, "And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel." (NIV)   What a lesson we could learn from the Israelites and the same lesson we could teach ourselves and our children as well.  

So never complain.  Never grumble.  Never ever murmur.  Because every time we receive something, especially if it is a good thing, or sometimes a "not so good" thing, we should have that gratitude attitude.

Let us remember what was written in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 "In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

Thank you for having the time to read this short but meaningful post.

God bless you, your children and your whole family.

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How To Teach Our Children Moral Values

We parents teach our children in three ways:

First, and perhaps the most basic, is by our example; we should live and show our children without a double standard of morality - one is that what we talk about and want other people to adhere to, and another which we think is okay for ourselves.  How can a child have a clear standards of what is right and wrong? 

Second, we teach by our attitudes, which develop emotional responses in our children;  it is one of the major factors that influence our child's behavior in the long run.  As it is said: "your attitude will determine your altitude."


Just one caution: Attitudes Are Contagious!  Everyday of your life your attitude are shaping and molding the character of your child.

Third, we teach them by our words. You can encourage your children to be the kind of persons you want them to become.  First, take advantage of your child's questions.  "Daddy, why does the butterfly come out of a cocoon?  Mommy, how come Uncle Jim went away to Heaven?  Daddy, why do I have to brush my teeth?"  We don't need to create stories or to tell lies, just plain and simple but straightforward answers would really do.

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