Kids Find Faith Step-by-Step, Day-by-Day
Proverbs 22:6Train children in the way they should go; when they grow old, they won't depart from it. (CEB)
Ephesians 6:4Fathers, do not make your children angry, but raise them with the training and teaching of the Lord. (NCV)
Paideia - In the ancient Greek civilization that this was taken from it meant the sum total in cultivation of a human being: your education, your spirituality, your work ethic, your vocation, your intelligence.
Philippians 4:9You know the teachings I gave you, and you know what you heard me say and saw me do. So follow my example. And God, who gives peace, will be with you. (CEV)
You can teach what you know, but you reproduce who you are.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7Write these commandments that I've given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you 7 and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. (MSG)
Do it now or pay later
Four Stages of Parenting
· Discipline (0-5)
· Training (5-12)
· Coaching (12-18)
· Friend (18)
If we don’t raise our kids and train them in the way they should go, culture will do it for us.