Shepherding a Child's Heart

why changes in your family life are important. (^) Your focus must be on what it means for you to honor ...

(^) Application Questions for Chapter 15 (^) 1. What Scriptural principles should guide the “when” of using the rod of ...

(^) Chapter 16 Childhood: Training Objectives The day arrived for our first child to go to school. ...

spending more time away from the direction and oversight of the parents. He is confronted with expe ...

will know what he ought to do even when you are not there. The Change in Focus from Stage One (^) I ...

let alone follow. (^) I knew a family that had rules about how long you could use the bathroom in the ...

to keep the rules. They become smug and self-righteous. They become modern Pharisees whose cup ...

enough to be helpful. Every six months or so, make this sort of analysis and diagnosis of the ...

understand himself? How aware is he of his strengths and weaknesses? Does he understand his personality ...

(^) There is another aspect of your child’s knowledge of himself. What attitudes toward himself d ...

needs that were evident in seed form in childhood years. (^) Self-possessed qualities are still anot ...

from controlling others. Genny learned how to pray and ask God for help when she was tempted to control others. ...

(^) 5. Have you ever felt, “If I had been there I could have controlled my child, but I wasn’t ...

(^) (^) Chapter 17 Childhood: Training Procedures It is a sound every parent has heard. Children screaming at ...

(^) Whatever motivates behavior trains the heart. If you motivate with shame you teach your c ...

(^) Instead, they began to get under the behavior and peel back the layers of excuses and reasons for feel ...

neighbor. Jesus told him he had answered correctly and charged him to obey God’s commands. The lawyer then ...

woman loved him more than self-righteous Simon. (^) You must apply the same methodology to your children’ ...

Training Character (^) Let’s take a character quality like dependability. How does training in depe ...

God’s grace and enablement. Nor can you make the more common mistake. You cannot try to build good qualities ...