Biblical Principles for Parenting (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When children don’t get their way, they may accuse parents of being mean or unfair. But find out why pandering to their demands can be detrimental! Examine an Old Testament example of faithful motherhood along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The When you're When your children don't get their way they may accuse you of being mean or unfair |
| 0:28.8 | well today on truth for life we'll find out why pandering to your child's demands is detrimental. |
| 0:36.0 | Alistair Begg takes us to an example of faithful motherhood found in 1st Samuel |
| 0:41.0 | chapter 1, but he begins today with a reference to |
| 0:44.1 | Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 6. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts, |
| 0:56.0 | impress them on your children. Now notice carefully what the Bible says. It doesn't say |
| 1:02.1 | impress your children. Because the longer you go, |
| 1:06.3 | the harder that is in any case. You may be a hero for the first few years, by by the time |
| 1:11.7 | they get to adolescence and a little bit beyond you |
| 1:14.4 | understand why it was that Mark Twain said when I was 16 I thought my father was a |
| 1:18.7 | fool when I got to 25 I realized how much he had learned and that experience is something that every parent lives through. |
| 1:27.5 | We understand that we have to indoctrinate our children and all kinds of things and careful parenting is |
| 1:34.0 | indoctrination. So I don't like the word? Fine. Choose another word. I don't mind |
| 1:40.7 | the word. What is this about if it's not about indoctrination? This is the way we brush our teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth, right? What is that about? It's about indoctrinating your children into the necessity and benefit of making |
| 1:56.2 | sure that their teeth are clean and they don't smell when they go on the school bus. |
| 2:00.8 | I don't know many parents who just said, hey, listen, there are a number of people |
| 2:05.4 | in society brush their teeth. There are others who frankly don't brush their teeth. I don't |
| 2:09.4 | want to affect your young life in any way. You're so tender, you're so malleable, you're so tender you're so malleable you're so so you're |
| 2:14.4 | such a wonderful little bundle so you are so hey there's a toothbrush there's toothpaste |
| 2:20.7 | do what you like but then again I'm not so sure that that doesn't happen. |
| 2:25.0 | Did I tell you that one of my children applied for a job just for fun as a nanny out |
| 2:29.5 | in Santa Barbara? You were only one of three nannies. There were two children, one was a year and a half |
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