Last week we were discussing what parents should expect from the children in the house. Expectations and responsibilities help children grow into responsible adults who can parent the next generation. To continue:
Boys need to learn how to mow yards, wash cars, and do other things that men need to do to take responsibility for their families. By all means, require your sons to get a job when they are old enough to work. Girls need to learn to care for a home, their clothes, cook good
It amazes me how little parents require of their children. Our soft society that requires nothing and expects even less has produced at least two generations of young people who think life and the government owes them something—or everything! This idea that parents do everything for their children and get no respect and nothing in return from most of them is a fascinating phenomenon! I have been a practicing psychologist for almost thirty years, so I have seen the impact of parents requiring little
Volumes could be written about human relationships. I watch people struggle every day with relationships with their husbands and wives, children, in-laws, siblings, significant others, and friends. Someone is always getting her feelings hurt about something insignificant and making a big deal about nothing. Or someone else never takes ownership for his life responsibilities, which puts pressure and stress on others in his life. These types of situations create resentment, anger, frustration, and
Many years ago an elderly saint told me that life is about relationships. At the time I was thirty and couldn’t imagine why relationships were of such great significance. But with an onset of maturity and age, it is much easier to understand why relationships are so important. As a psychologist, I help people unravel the chaos of dysfunctional, miserable, abusive, and unfortunate circumstances surrounding relationships. Let’s talk about what constitutes good, bad, and ugly relationships.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 2 Peter 1:5–7 (NIV1984)
If we possessed these qualities, our lives would be so full of goodness and mercy. Peter says to make every effort to add to your faith goodness. Would you say that you live a good life and do
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