Building a Plan for Training Your Child

Episode Summary. This episode gives four biblical foundations upon which a father needs to build his plan for training his child in the way he should go. 

For Further Prayerful Thought. 

1. How would you support the argument that the starting point for training a child is to help his heart learn to hate evil because he experiences painful consequences from bad choices and love righteousness because he experiences benefit from making good choices?
2. In the portrait of eight character qualities that we must instill in our children, which ones stood out?
3. What insight stood out in 4-step process of helping kids internalize the Word of God? Why do you think so many young parents are using the New City Catechism with their children?
4. Is it overstating the case to say that dads who send their kids out into the secular world, after being cocooned in the Christian sub-culture with no training in worldviews, are sending out lambs to be slaughtered?

Resources.

Foundation # 1: Heart Trained by Consequences

• Boundaries with Kids, Henry Cloud & John Townsend
• Raising Great Kids, Cloud & Townsend

Foundation # 2: Character Expressed in Godly Attitudes

• Character Development Training Plan (Pa 132 Focus Notebook)

Foundation # 3: Word of God Internalized

• The New City Catechism Curriculum
• The Topical Memory System

Foundation # 4:  Biblical Worldview Embraced

• The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims, Rebecca McLaughlin
• A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today’s World, John Stonestreet & Brent Kunkle
• Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies, Hillary Ferrer, Editor.

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