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This is Reformed, Biblical child-rearing: love them; live with them in friendship; and discipline them, taking the Fatherhood of God as pattern. If God’s Fatherhood of us cost Him His own Son, we cannot expect our child-rearing to be easy, painless, and cheap. But it is possible. Good rearing and a
There are many places to turn for advice because there are nearly as many child-rearing methods as there are doctors and psychologists who study children. Each doctor has his own idea of the most successful way to discipline so it seems there is no end to the advice that parents can get when raising
Childcare: volumes have been written on this subject. Many of them are produced by secular (unbelieving) sociologists and child psychologists. Many others are generated by "Christians" who write with a religious flare but ignore the truth of Scripture while imbibing the unbelieving mindset of this w
Parents are at the heart of child rearing, but just as the physical heart in a body needs the rest of the body to function; parents need the rest of the body of Christ, not an ungodly neighbor or daycare center. Do not place your children in the red hot arms of Molech to be consumed by ungodly instr
The feeling of closeness and loving care, by a mother, is essential for healthy development of the child. How about the toddler, and the pre-school years? Every waking moment of a child is a learning experience. The child imitates, investigates, and needs a loving, guiding hand. These are years when
These small children are entrusted to us by God, first as parents, and later as teachers and parents. It is our duty and calling to instruct these children, to train them. We often think this instruction begins after the child is old enough to understand or to reason. If you wait until the child is
Although the rest of the world may look on them with dismay and shout accusations of cruelty and abuse, these covenant parents know that true parental love involves both the rod and reproof: “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.” (Proverbs 29:15.
We also recognize the fact that a child normally repeats what it sees and hears, and we also think it to be of the utmost importance that the child be made to see and hear, by example and precept, that which is good. What then is different about our approach, and how do we conceive of habits? Essent
The parent will always have a special supervisory interest in the child and the child must always have a heart which loves and honors his parents so that he is responsive to them. But the years of training must come to an end. The special joys of daily fellowship between parent and child give place
It is the gospel that creates the covenant between God and us; and it is the gospel that creates the covenant between believers and their children. Therefore, it is essential for Reformed child-rearing that the parents raise their children in a true church that faithfully preaches the pure Word of G