When your children are from the ages of like 12 to like 18, it's a great time to train your kids to really pursue the Lord with their heart.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So we love to dig deep at least every fifth episode into a particular passage that really has a lot of relevance

for fathers and a great one you guys is proverbs 1918 it says discipline your children

while there is hope otherwise you will ruin their lives that's the new living

translation and it says similar things in other translations.

But what I wanted to talk about is why it says this phrase,

while there is still hope.

What does it mean when it says discipline your children while there is still hope?

I think what it's talking about you guys is that there are phases of parenting, phases of

fathering, and there are times in which you need to win the battle during that phase.

And so when it says while there is hope, when your child is 23 years old and just constantly giving into their impulses,

that's not the best time to train them to live a discipline life. It would have been better

to have trained them when they were seven, right? And so what it means is that for each of us as fathers,

we have to be aware of what are the ideal seasons for training our kids in certain areas.

And I think that there are an amazing ideal seasons when your children are like from the ages of like

four to eight, like that's a great time to train them when it comes to just obedience, for example.

Like learning to submit to authority,

learning to understand that there's a wisdom beyond them. When your children are from the ages

of like 12 to like 18, it's a great time to train your kids to really pursue the Lord with

their heart, to really work on their character to have deep conversations

about why they're making decisions they're making and and going through that

repent and believe process and gospeling your kids those are just examples but I

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