Good Training For Children’s Growth
Train a child in the way he should go and when he grows, he will not depart from it. Proverb 22:6. This is an incontestable truth that the Holy Scripture offers us in seeing in the vitality of bringing up children responsibly through the process of conscious and intentional training or formation. A core responsibility of parents and older generation is to train a child in the path that leads to wholistic growth. Failure to be involved in effectively training a child properly will always result in terrible consequences. A child cannot just develop sense of right and wrong without being tutored and trained to have that perception and lifestyle. We need to be very involved in tutoring the younger generation in patterns of life that yield positive outcomes and explain to them conscientiously the consequences of bad decisions. The attitude to think a child on its own would naturally adjust to the right approach to life automatically is a wrong step in parenting and such careless attitude will yield bad outcomes in the life of a child, and the parents will always partake of the failings and traumatic consequences that flow from such failings.
Uninvolved parents and guardians give avenues for children to lose their bearings in life and make them embrace destructive patterns. True love for a child demands rigorous efforts and dedication in mentoring a child for meaningful growth and embracing positive orientation. This will involve making a child to appreciate the principal role of God in one’s life and allowing one’s life well guided by religious consciousness and moral values. It leads to appreciation of the moral compass and guidance that religion offers a child to become the best of oneself and reject options that entice to embracing negativity. It demands teaching a child the value of prioritizing purpose over pleasure or hedonism. It leads to a structured framework, where a child values structures of discipline over mindset of reckless and destructive freedom.
Much is lost when a child loses his or her bearing and we cannot always be strong to bear the shocks and ripple effects that will create as an aftermath. It is better to feel the inconvenience of constant training of a child than to experience the trauma of a disordered child who grows into adulthood as a nuisance to himself or herself and becomes a dangerous reality for the larger society. We need to appreciate the reward that good training offers a child and the society at large. We should never be so careless under the guise of fostering freedom to allow our children to end up as monsters and self-destructive elements. We need to reverse the negative trend of watching the younger generation destroy themselves in a manner that one becomes afraid of them. We just must keep mentoring and guiding them on the path of greatness and righteousness.
Scriptural Readings; Sunday: Proverb 22:1-29, Monday: Proverb 4:1-27. Tuesday: Psalm1 Wednesday: Philippians 4:1-23, Thursday: Ephesians 6:1-23, Friday: Hebrews 12:1-17. Saturday: Luke 3:41-52.