A guiding heart and hand ...
I do not know which is worse, for parents to expect too much or too little of their young children. To expect too much is to frustrate the child and cause them to either give up, feel inferior or resent the parent. These feelings often increase with intensity throughout life. But to expect too little can be equally damaging in that the child is unchallenged at home and seeks purpose and direction from equally misdirected friends and other bad influences like TV or movies. Every child needs dilligent, dedicated and balanced parents to set the correct example, motivate, instruct and show love to their children. Wise parentswill constantly remind themselves that their children are not just babies, clowns, helpless little pigs, or big headaches. They are actually little PEOPLE who may grow up to be adult babies, boring clowns, big pigs .... winners or losers. Progressives say there are no losers, but if they become thieves, liars and drug addicts .... and then go to hell, they are losers. Our childen will be Moms and Dads, heros, zeros, hellions or whatever we make of them, or they make of themselves.... if we let them. Their future life, as adult PEOPLE, will be determined, to a great extent, by how their parents raise them ... except for one other very powerful force ... their ,"selfwill". Their selfwill may listen to you or not, choose their own close friends, good or bad, who they date: what they do when you are not present, and a thousand other volitional choices. God's Ten Commandments are not suggestions: but neither are they compulsory. Each of us must choose to obey them or disobey them and eventually answer to God for our choices. But, in the mean time, our volitional violations have consequences in life, this side of Judgement Day. So, "training up a child in the way he should go" is far more important than training him/her up to be beautiful, athletic, rich, educated, talented, interesting or otherwise successful in the eyes of the world. Although those things may have a secondary importance. Here are two impressive examples of the power of parents in training up their Childen in what they will become in life. You have that power. What will you make of your children? And no, it will not be determined by race. Here is proof. Watch both of these two different children. Let the video run, after the 6 year old, "High Church" organist, and see the infant violinist on this same link.
And here is a third example:
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