Consider Your Child's Perspective

Jennifer recommends listening, asking questions, and explaining reasons behind rules, illustrating with her children's homeschooling requests.

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This week I'm answering a question from a listener who'd like to know how to raise kids who won't resent your family rules or rebel against them. Is that even possible? Listen in on Episode 94 as we discuss what parents can do to reduce the risk of rebellion.

Show Notes VERSES CITED:

- Philippians 1:6 - "...he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."

- 1 Corinthians 13:13 - “But now abide faith, hope, love, these three. But the greatest of these is love.”

- Hebrews 10:23 - “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering....”

- Hebrews 11:6 - “...without faith it is impossible to please God.”

- 1 John 4:16 - “God IS love.”

- 1 John 4:19 - “We love because He first loved us.”

- John 13:35 - “By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

- Galatians 5:22 - "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness..."

- Proverbs 3:11 - “...whom the LORD loves He reproves, even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.”

- Proverbs 13:24 - “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.”

- Deuteronomy 12:32 - “See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.”

- Proverbs 30:5-6 - “Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.”

- Revelation 2:18-19 - “...If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book....”

- John 2:1-11 - [story of Jesus turning water into wine at the marriage feast in Cana]

- Ephesians 5:18 - "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."

- James 1:5 - "If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all...."

- Isaiah 40:11 - “He tends His flock like a shepherd ... He gently leads those that have young.”

- Matthew 11:28 - “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.”

- Psalm 127:1-5 - “Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain...."

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