March 7: MOLDING OUR CHILDREN

My wife loves Pre-school children, all of hem. She loves to teach them and watch them grow. She is one of those people who learned long ago that it is easier to mold a child than reshape an adult. Many adults will confess today that they wish someone had taught them the truth before they became hardened adults.
It is so hard watching children come out of homes where the adults don’t care about the impression being made on he children. Young lives are so pliable and responsive. The old saying about “as the twig is bent” is very true.
Adults need to exercise control over what television programs the children watch. Some of the results will not be seen immediately but the seed planted will bear fruit. It is comparable to the “copy-cat” crimes that are regularly reported on the Evening News. Some of the grosses and most shocking are the ones perpetrated by children after watching adult TV.
Parents who read worthless fiction or watch immoral television shows or use any kind of drug (even prescription) can be sure that their children will follow their example, not their words. Jesus said “If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6 NIV)
Jesus has great compassion for children. Its easy to understand. Children are so vulnerable. In a metropolitan area people get so preoccupied with making a living that it’s easy to neglect time spending time teaching the children how to “make a life”.
Caring for their diet and physical well-being is important in raising children; caring for their spiritual and emotional development is critical. Reader: check out your children and grandchildren. If you see actions, hear words, notice attitudes that they learned from you: go to them and apologize.

“Father of All, these precious young lives who copy so much after us;
help them to sort out what is worth copying and ignore the rest. Amen”