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Do You Parent Well?  Honor Well?

5/10/2015

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                                            The fourth commandment:  “Honor your father and mother.”  

When you honor your parents, you honor God.  And when you parent well, you carry out a God-given responsibility.  

We parent well when:
  • We practice what we preach.
  • We spend time listening and truly knowing our children.  
  • We institute regular meal times together.
  • We discipline (and and refuse to spoil). 
  • Out of love we say, “No.”
  • We teach and model our faith. 
  • We guard our kids from over-commitment.
  • We model a healthy marriage. 
  • We ask forgiveness when we’ve failed as parents.


We honor our parents well when:
  • After a lifetime of feeding us, one day WE pay for dinner.
  • We grow up and move out of the house.
  • We hold our tongues.
  • We obey them, especially when they’re not around.  
  • We forgive our parents when they have done wrong.
  • We live the faith and values they have been imparted to us.
  • We give them a hug.
  • We care for them in older age.
  • After our parents have died, we bear the heritage of faith and life they instilled in us.  
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