Comments on: The Stepmother http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/stepmother/ Create your future. Solve problems. Impact eternity. Live - really live - today. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Andy Wood http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/stepmother/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Andy Wood Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:47:02 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/28/stepmother/#comment-470 Oh, some blame the Industrial Revolution, others the Baby Boom, others the 60s, others, well, anybody but themselves. There has always been a temptation among parents to take the support we can receive from the "experts" and allow them to become substitutes for parenting. But there's a line we can cross, in which we are committed to our children becoming something we aren't willing to be, and the word for that is hypocrisy. Oh, and speaking of examples, the other night I had TWO pbj sandwiches, and it's all your fault! Oh, some blame the Industrial Revolution, others the Baby Boom, others the 60s, others, well, anybody but themselves. There has always been a temptation among parents to take the support we can receive from the “experts” and allow them to become substitutes for parenting. But there’s a line we can cross, in which we are committed to our children becoming something we aren’t willing to be, and the word for that is hypocrisy.

Oh, and speaking of examples, the other night I had TWO pbj sandwiches, and it’s all your fault!

]]> By: carissa http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/stepmother/comment-page-1/#comment-469 carissa Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:01:37 +0000 http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/07/28/stepmother/#comment-469 i wonder when it became so common for parents to think that all the spiritualizing, civilizing education their kids will need will be given to them directly from the youth pastor, via IV or something, and not at all from the parents and the home themselves. when i was growing up i always secretly liked those kids who i could tell were really family-oriented as opposed to peer-oriented like the rest of us -- they learned more from their mom and dad than from TV and their peers, they sat with their family instead of their friends during service, they were polite and most of the time they were far beyond the rest of us in spiritual maturity. i think their parents knew how to be good examples. carissas last blog post..<a href="http://copiosa.blogspot.com/2008/07/god-is-great-god-is-good.html" rel="nofollow">God is great, God is good . . .</a> i wonder when it became so common for parents to think that all the spiritualizing, civilizing education their kids will need will be given to them directly from the youth pastor, via IV or something, and not at all from the parents and the home themselves. when i was growing up i always secretly liked those kids who i could tell were really family-oriented as opposed to peer-oriented like the rest of us — they learned more from their mom and dad than from TV and their peers, they sat with their family instead of their friends during service, they were polite and most of the time they were far beyond the rest of us in spiritual maturity. i think their parents knew how to be good examples.

carissas last blog post..God is great, God is good . . .

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