Jesus in his grace came and rescued us and all that we have comes from him.

What's up guys, Jeff and Jeremy here. Another episode of Five Minute Fatherhood. A fun question

today from our homeroom community. And that's how do you handle an entitled child? Now, I would

first say, that means how do you handle every single

person in the world? Because that's literally, you know, all of us, adults included are entitled

children. Hopefully we've grown in our discipleship. But that's the point. That's the point.

As I think what I'm saying is it's the default settings of humanity, right? In the same way

you open up a phone and it has default settings, entitlement is the default sitting of humanity, right? And the same way you open up a phone and it has default

settings, entitlement is the default setting of sin, of the curse, of death, of decay, because the

antithesis of that is thankfulness and the gospel, right? The opposite is the good news of

Jesus, the declaration that he has come, lived and died and rose again, brought new creation, and that you are only indebted and thankful for that, and that everything's a gift. That's the opposite of entitlement. And that comes later, right, as the gift that you receive in life when you start following Jesus. So, yeah, what would you say, Jeremy, though, practically? How do you, how do you kind of handle that? Yeah, you guys. So we have an

epidemic really of growing narcissism in our culture. And a lot of this came from ideas about parenting

that really were popular, especially like in the 80s and in the 90s. They basically said,

if your child has incredible self-esteem, is what we called it, right? Then if they think they're

amazing, then you're doing an incredible job as a parent. And you guys, the Bible could not be

more against that as being the primary goal. It's really important that kids have a certain

level of confidence for sure. But that is the difference between confidence and pride.

There's a very thin line there.

And if you don't, if you're not using the gospel and you're not really helping your kids

understand a fuller context of who they are in the family, in the community, then probably

narcissism and entitlement is almost inevitable from the confidence

you're trying to pump them up with. And before you know, you have this incredibly entitled

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