While it's true that children often carry their parents' physical traits, such as the

color of their eyes or the manner in which they walk, it's not so with their personalities.

Every child is uniquely crafted by God with temperaments all their own.

Today on InSight for Living, Juxwendal continues his brand new series called Restoring Your

Families Foundation.

In this study, we'll search the Bible to see what God says about tailoring our approach

to suit every member of the family.

Chuck Titled today's message, Do You Really Know Your Child?

Any series on the family would certainly include some messages on children in the whole

process of rearing children in God's way, which is often surprising to us because

the truth be told very few have been reared God's way.

Not said to be in any way critical of your parents or mine, the fact is most of them simply

didn't know.

This is, I could say, many of you may have never made a study of how to rear your children

as God planned for them to be reared.

So we'll get into that today from the Book of Proverbs, a Book of Wisdom.

If you have your Bible with you, I'd like you to turn to chapter 20 and I'll read several

excerpts from the Proverbs.

We won't cover all of them, but several of them we will.

Proverbs 20 verse 11 will be the starting point.

I'll be reading this today from the new American standard version of the Bible.

Verse 20 verse 11, it is by his deeds that a boy distinguishes himself.

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