Evaluating Your Family’s Technology Usage
Our accepted standard of technology usage can easily affect our relationship with God and with others. If you are unsure how your technology usage is affecting your family, ask these questions.
Our accepted standard of technology usage can easily affect our relationship with God and with others. If you are unsure how your technology usage is affecting your family, ask these questions.
A. W. Tozer was a pastor who was commendable in his love for God but lacking in his devotion to his family. Learn from his example of what not to do as you care for your spouse and your children.
Unfortunately, instead of finding a healthy, biblical balance of parents disciplining their children in love, I often see parents swinging to one of the far sides of the parent pendulum. Most parents tend to be either too harsh or too lenient in disciplining their children.
While parents should be the supportive catalysts for a child’s spiritual growth, sometimes just the opposite is experienced. Have you ever thought that your words, expressions, and actions might be discouraging your child’s personal discipleship?
If you want to learn how to be a better dad, look to the perfect one who cares for you, and learn from him.
As you lovingly teach your children that your spouse comes first, you are modeling healthy marriage for them, maintaining emotional security for them, and maturing your own marriage before them. Never neglect the task of shepherding your children in the ways of the Lord (Prov. 22:6; Eph. 6:4), but never forget that one of the main ways you can do that is by loving their other parent.
COVID-19 forced many parents to finish up the school year in a hybrid format. For those who were overwhelmed by that experience, that is not the same as homeschooling.
I have talked with so many parents who are concerned with the unknown situation regarding their children’s education during these anxious times we live in due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are now in July, and most parents are holding their breath awaiting an imminent decision with serious implications.
Since your child is unique, there is a unique approach to parenting them. Acknowledging how God has shaped them, we are called to affirm who they are but also to work on who they could become.
These are my sons. Both of them. I have been asked before, “Are they really your sons?” “Oh, they are both quite real, so then I would suppose they are both really my sons.” They are my sons, and they are brothers. Real brothers. You might think I look at them differently. You are right. …