Children obey sometimes?
If as a wife our main responsibility is to be our husbands helper then there must be a simple answer for children and their responsibilites. There is! Children obey your parents.
Eph 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Col 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Kevin and I have done and taught the parenting course Growing Kids God's Way and we highly recommend it. On the topic of obedience here are a few quotes from the course.
"Children will rise to the level of expectation of their parents. Many parents expect to little and receive exactly that." -Growing Kids God's Way
Have you found threating a time out or ? or counting to 3?
"How is it that a child will obey the third time but not the first? The reason is that the parent is finally resolved to force conformity. If a child obeys by the third request, why not by the first?" - Growing Kids God's Way
Anything short of first time obedience "only serves to lure a child into sin...". I don't want to be guilty of that.
Straight talk parenting may not be my most popular post. Ladies there is a standard to be met. It's a high calling, it will produce fruit.
A verse that I read this morning stuck out to me but I wasn't sure how it would fit in today's post. God knew.
Matthew 21: 43"Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. .."
Not that "you" are a bad person. We all need to grow and improve. Take this info, raise the standard and produce fruit.
In this with you raising our kids His way.
Alanne.