Train Your Children

Today I had to teach my son a lesson. Some of the hardest things in life I have come to find out are when you have to teach your children about the real world. For some reason these life lessons are beginning earlier and earlier with our up coming generations. It really irritates me and drives me crazy to know that not only do I have to guard my children from movies and regular TV but also have to guard them from cartoons. This simply should not be. I have seen some cartoons here recently that make me want to throw my TV out the window. The other thing that makes me sick is that I have to guard my children from family members, family members that don't understand my point of view who call themselves Christians and then live a life of Satan (best word I could come up with.) I know this sounds a bit harsh, but I don't think it is right to have to be teaching a 2 year old the life lesson I had to teach him today, and  the worst thing about it all is to realize that myself and my husband have some blame in this ourselves in some words we choose to use and some of the shows we choose to watch and our children may still be present.


What do you do when you have to teach a very young child a life lesson. First of all don't loose your temper. They more times than not do not even know what they are doing. Secondly get on their level. Try your hardest to help them understand in words and ways they will understand. Thirdly make sure your children know that you are not mad and that you love them. Fourthly and finally let it go. After you have finished your talk with your children let it go. Don't bring it up again for any reason and make very very sure you don't ever hold it over them. That's mean and shows that you may very well be the reason you are having to teach your children this life lesson to begin with.


Here's a good example of what to do along with what happened today.
-My son: "I kill mommy"
-My son: "I kill mommy" even louder
-My son: "I kill mommy" screaming at this point and has a can opener in his hand and puts it to my back and says "I killed mommy"
-Mommy: I stopped what I was doing, turned around, took the can opener away
-Mommy: I looked at my 2 year old son and said "son do you know what kill means?" "Do you really understand what kill means"
-My son: "No"
-Mommy: "It means the same thing as hate"
-Mommy: "It means you don't love someone and it means you never want to see that person again."
-Mommy: "Do you love mommy?"
-My son: "Yes"
-Mommy: "Do you want to see me again?"
-My son: "Yes"
-Mommy: "Ok then lets not use those words again ok?"
-My son: "Ok"
-My son: "he went off and started playing again.
-Mommy: "The End"


In closing if you have to sensor the TV with your children, sensor it with yourself. If you have to sensor the radio with your children, sensor it with yourself. If you have to sensor your children's friends, sensor your friends. If you have to sensor what your children look at on the computer, sensor what you look at on the computer. If you have to sensor what your children wear, sensor what you wear. And the list goes on and on and on. Don't be a Do As I Say Not As I Do person. That is ridiculous and makes you a hypocrite which means you are teaching your children how to be hypocrite. Be a Do As I Do person and watch your children grow into something great.

"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

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