This is Max Lakato.

Fear turns some parents into paranoid prison guards who monitor every minute,

check the background of every friend.

A family with no breathing room suffocates a child.

On the other hand, fear can also create permissive parents.

Fearing that their child will feel too confined or fenced in, they are high on hugs and low on discipline.

They don't realize that appropriate discipline is an expression of love.

Permissive parents, paranoid parents, how can we avoid the extremes? We pray.

Jesus' big message to moms and dads, bring your children to me. Pray that your children will

have a profound sense of place in this world and a heavenly place in the next. Parents, we can entrust our kids to Christ.