Teaching my “Parenting The Love and Logic Way™” class at
Rescue The Children, the women’s and children’s shelter where I volunteer, I
was again impressed last week, with the simple wisdom in this course. Why do we discipline our children?
1. To let them rest secure in the knowledge that loving
adults run the home as loving authority figures should.
2. To help them understand that they are welcome to share
the fellowship and joy of the family when they are nice.
In other words, there will be times when they are not nice
or fun to be around. And, at those times, their own behavior choices will
remove them from the fellowship and joy and companionship enjoyed by the rest
of the family, who is choosing to be nice.
God, our perfect Father, has set up a universe based on
free-will choices. We can choose to
participate in His loving family, or we can choose to put ourselves out of the
fellowship and joy and comfort that come with being part of a loving family. We
can allow selfish choices and behaviors that are just “not nice” to cut us off
from the company of good people. But why? Is it worth being lonely so I can be
the only one in the room with the “right answer”, the “correct opinion”, the
“best idea”? I don’t think so.
“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love
and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do,
but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing
near.” Hebrews 10:24,25 (New Living Translation)
--Posted by Mama O.
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