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I love watching our adult children do a better job of training their children than we did! I have watched and learned as they train our grandchildren.<\/p>\nI love watching our adult children do a better job of training their children than we did! I have watched and learned as they train our grandchildren.<\/p>\n
For instance, I really wish we had trained our children to always respond when we instructed or directed them<\/strong>.\u00a0I have watched little minds struggling with their own wills and not wanting to obey their daddy or mama. Then, when they respond with a simple “Yes, Mama” or “Yes, Papa”, they humbly submit their wills to the will of their parents. Obedience is simple after that!<\/span><\/p>\n It’s helpful to look at responses to authority in the Bible.<\/strong> The references below offer a few examples of humble, verbal response to instruction. (Even Jesus, God made man, submitted to His Father with the humble words, “Not my will, but Thine by done.”)<\/p>\n Prayerfully consider asking your children to verbally respond to you, if you don’t already do so. Then, if you decide to ask for a response, teach them how you would like them to answer you, and show them these examples from God’s Word. (Looking up the word “answer” in a concordance will also yield an interesting study on this subject.)<\/p>\n In a future post, we’ll talk about teaching our children to respectfully appeal, when appropriate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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