Parenting 101 – April 6, 2025
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Pastor Dan Broyles
“A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine set out on a thirty-year study to find if a single related cause existed for five major issues: mental illness, hypertension, malignant tumors, coronary heart disease, and suicide.After studying 1,377 students over thirty years, the most prevalent single cause of all five illnesses was not what you may think. Diet? Exercise? Not at all. They found instead that the most significant predictor of these five tragedies was a lack of closeness to the parents, especially the father.”
― Joshua Straub, Safe House
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates….
Deuteronomy 6:12 (NIV)
12 be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
- Moses gives this charge to all of Israel. Parents are the primary ones tasked with impressing this on their children, but all of Israel was listening. Together, everyone would need to seize the opportunity to help children know God and follow him.
Romans 8:38-39 (NIV)
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
When there is security, safety, and love in the family, the child now is in a good place to be taught and even corrected:
Genesis 27:5-10 (NIV)
5 Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, 6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, 7 ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’ 8 Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: 9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. 10 Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
1. Correction
- Punishment vs. Discipline
- Punishment: To inflict a penalty, to just react or react impulsively
- Discipline: To train for correction and maturity, noticing the heart, and thinking of the child’s future
- “When a child is upset, logic often won’t work until we have responded to the right brain’s emotional needs. ” ― Daniel J. Siegel
- For all of us as parents…If we want to be better parents, we don’t just need better techniques in how we parent, but we need to grow as human beings.
- Be careful – especially within the culture that we live in:
- Be careful not to parent out of fear.
- Your relationship with the other parent will always impact your child.
- Make church a priority
- Comparing your child to others is harmful
- Don’t give your child too much power
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