How Can Parents Train Their Children To Love Their Instruction And To Love Their Law?

Jun 16

A couple of practical things:

1. Quit double income parenting. Dads are providers and protectors, moms are nurturers and nurses (in the classical sense of nurse, not just in medical things, but also in providing early lessons - think nanny if you prefer, but that position typically came as a professional hired out to fill a void or need or mother).

2. Homeschool your children. Dad works (very well and proficiently) and is valued enough at work to provide income and provide time with the family dedicated to instruction. Mom works (very well and proficiently) to steer and rear children under the authority and sacrificial leadership of the dad/husband.

3. Practice family worship. On a daily basis spend time together in the Word, in prayer, and singing the praises of the king. Do not make this laborious (John Newton has great advice on that if anyone wants a resource). But do make this a habit filled with joy and delight.

4. Instead of watching a TV show, cook a meal for another family/individual. At first you may not enjoy this, but your kids will grow in their practical skills and in their charitable generosity for others learning to put in work for the benefit of others.

5. Discipline your children. To Leave your children without discipline is to hate then. This means both providing consequences, as well as providing routine. A disciplined life means an ordered, regulated life. As you train your children teach them the rhythm of a working week, and a working day. This begins with taking seriously the Christian Sabbath and the delight of worship and the rigorous ambition to pursue merciful acts only done on the Sabbath (visit a hospital or retirement community, have others in to your home, write and memorize scripture or take long walks observing and extolling God in creation).

There are more to give then these 5, but these 5 are a terrific start.