Funny, when you have kids of your own… you get pushed to the point when back when you were young. I can still hear my dad say: ‘I wonder what you’ll do when you have your own.’ Now when one of the kids refuses to eat for example, he can laugh so hard, because I’m using the same methods he would have. ‘Train up a child in the way it should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.'(Proverbs 22:6) So even the small things count. Now a day’s I like to eat every dish! (except for brussle sprouts 🙂 )

As parents you love your children and you sometimes need the discipline because you do love them. I sometimes feel guilty doing so, because you can relate to those things from your own youth. ‘Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.’ (Hebrews 12:11) It’s amazing how fast you can see the sin in your child’s life, as soon as they start saying ‘no’, it seems to get worse…

Joel 1 verse 3 tells us; ‘Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children and their children another generation.’ What does this mean? Well it’s about the telling of the Bible. Which is full of life experiences, expectations and how to live a godly life. Most important it tells us about love, the love of a Father to His children. And that most wonderful promise that is awaiting us in the life after. A father knows more about life then his son, because he has more life-experience. So does God have the most experience, He’s the One who lived(s) forever! So why not learn from His teachings and tell so to our children? Won’t we all have our children know the Lord? Start them young, their ears will pick up the sweet sounds, their eyes will see your examples and their mouth will proclaim what’s bin said before!

Now I can laugh with my dad about these little incidents, but before – I felt guilty, because I too, had to be trained…