Recently I have been very convicted about my lack of diligence in training our children. Albeit, the past few months have been crazy, but eventually I knew that I needed and wanted things to get back to where I thought we were at least pointed in the right direction, even if we weren't making any progress. So Don and I talked about things this past Sunday afternoon. Big things like - the vision and direction of our family and small things like - what steps do we take each day to be going that direction. He asked me to start going through Proverbs and making a list of categories of verses regarding a parent's responsibility to instruct and discipline their children and the blessings and warnings given to parents and children alike if they don't heed God's instruction. This morning I read through the first 12 chapters online and though I haven't got to the classic "discipline your child" verses yet, I found many that definitely increased my conviction that this is a worthy pursuit. Once I get through the book, I'll post what I have found. I know there are several books on this subject and at least one with the very name "Proverbs for Parenting", and though I will most likely make use of those in the future, I find that I "get" stuff more if I'm the one digging it out. Pray for me that the Spirit of God will direct me as I "dig" and will show me the great wisdom of His word.
I've finished my trek (for now) of hunting through the book of Proverbs for nuggets of parenting wisdom...and wow! have I found the treasure trove! The book is full of responsibilities, blessings and warnings for both parent and child. I'm sure that I have probably missed several verses that should be on the list. But, in its incomplete form, here is what I found - parenting nuggets from the book of Proverbs . Recently in family worship my husband has been taking us through the book of Proverbs and teaching verses to our children. Though not an idea original to us, we've been putting hand motions etc. to some of the verses to help our children memorize. It has been amazing what even our one-year old remembers! A section of Scripture was read the other night at church and she was saying it right along with the speaker. We pray that it will be a great blessing to them to have these Scriptures stored in their minds - even if they don't remember it perfectly later, ...