Sunday’s Food for Thought – Are we suppressing our kid’s fighting spirit?
In the name of ‘love’, parents tend to provide ‘everything’ for their children. Buying for them what they like. Giving to them whatever they ask.
And when the kids are so much older, they’re still supported and provided for, even financially.
When parents continue to treat their children in such a way, these children will most likely grow up having no ‘fighting spirit’ as they’re hardly ever in a difficult situation where they have to struggle and ‘fight’.
[Even mother eagles train their babies to fly by throwing them down from a very high place and catching them just in time before they hit the ground below]
Diamond needs to be polished. Gold must go through extreme heat to be purified. Cloth and materials need to be cut too if we’re to make a beautiful dress.
Each of the above goes through a process that may seem ‘uncomfortable’. Even painful. But through that process and ‘pain’, something more beautiful emerges.
Let us introspect the way we educate and bring up our children.
For their own good.
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Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way
you treat them. Rather, bring them up with
the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Note: The points I share at ‘Sunday’s Food for Thought’ posts make up only about 1% (if not less) of the total sermon delivered by Rev. Stephen Tong.
