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Investing time with our children is vital. Parenting requires full-time attention, love, care, discipline, effort, and excellence. It's about relationship and the only way to truly be there is to spend one-on-one time together.
Speak life! We invest in our children with the words we speak. Our words speak either life or death, treasuring or thrashing. Positive affirmation makes deposits into our child's emotional bank, criticism makes withdrawals.
Listen - Communication is investment through dialogue - both listening and speaking. In our haste we often deliver a rushed monologue that tells them what we want instead of listening, sharing, and really understanding. If you preach more that teach, talk more than listen, use monologue instead of dialogue - stop!
Affirm Feelings - Invest in your child's emotional health. Children feel first, think second. Feeling speak to the heart. Feelings are an important part of who we are and how we relate to others.
Respect your Child - Sow respect, get respect. Invest respect in them by calling them blessed names, value giftings and worth of your children. Building them up, not tearing them down and treat them the way we wish to be treated. Invest respect into your children and they in turn will respect you.
Setting a Godly example - Children observe our every move and record our every word. At a most unexpected time a child will speak or act just like we do. Integrity is who we really are on the inside. It is what we do when we think no one is looking. The person our child becomes is the inner person we are, not the outer one.
Next week - Training
4 comments:
Hey, thanks for blogging these teaching! I learned a lot!!
You're most welcome dear, it was you who's always there to give me the push and encouragement. I thank you too :P
thanks for the reminder on words ...
Dear Daph, thanks for reading and your comment is most welcome!! :)
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