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Authors: Phil Robertson
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return to raising children in godly homes and environments. At some point during the last thirty or forty years, Americans stopped teaching, correcting, and disciplining (or training) their children, and now we’re seeing the results. They aren’t good. Many of our children are out of control and have no respect for authority. It’s almost like pulling teeth to get some American parents to correct their children. Hey, it has almost gotten to the point in this country where you can’t correct them. Some people claim it’s child abuse to spank their little behinds and make them behave. I’ve come to realize that human beings despise correction and discipline. We love to just let her rip with no restraint.
We have to remember that Jesus Christ died for us because of our sins. But when God tells us we have to live a life of restraint and self-control, we don’t want to do it. As a result, we’re not teaching, correcting, and disciplining our children to live lives ofobedience. For the last fifty years or so, we’ve been churning out a generation of nerds. The men in our country face some special challenges. With no discipline or restraint, look at the crop of men we’ve produced. Whatever happened to manhood? Some fathers teach their sons to shave. Others teach them how to be men. Teach your boys how to be men.
I think the most important values we can teach our children are a healthy fear of God and the importance of hard work. Too many of our children are no longer willing to work for what they want. They feel they’re entitled to every new gadget and toy because we’ve spoiled them and didn’t teach them that you have to work for what you want. I think that’s why America turned into a nation of entitlement. It’s the scourge of work. Our children want to live their lives but don’t want any pain from hard work—only the pleasure. Too many of our children never experience blood, sweat, and tears. We want everyone to feel like they’ve won no matter what. Our society tells us we can’t have winners and losers because it hurts our children’s self-esteem. We can no longer discipline our children or put them to work because it might hurt their feelings. Well, we’ve created a generation of fat, lazy children as a result. When they grow to become adults, they’re still looking for their mamas and daddies—or the government—to bail them out. We need to get back to teaching our children personal responsibility and the virtues of hard work.
If we’re going to save our children, we have to put God back into the equation. When I went to grade school, we prayed beforethe start of every school day. Now you can’t even pray in schools or at school-sponsored events like football games. Since our schools no longer teach our children family values and godliness, it’s up to us to ensure it happens—it’s really been our responsibility all along. Our children’s brains are like computers. They’re going to be programmed by what we put into them. If we leave Jesus Christ and godly values out of what we’re teaching them, they’ll grow up to be adults whose brains are filled with filth.
It’s up to us as believers to help get American families back into churches and Sunday school classes. Those of us who do attend church don’t do enough outside of the church buildings. The American model of Christianity is to attend church on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night—and only a small segment of the population goes to church that frequently. But we have to remember that we have no impact on people outside of Jesus when we’re inside the church building. Instead of the church being salt and light in our culture, too many of our church pews are sitting empty on Sundays. We Christians have to be that salt and light during our everyday lives.
We never forced Christianity on our boys. We prayed that they would make the decision to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, but we never told them
We have to remember that Jesus Christ died for us because of our sins. But when God tells us we have to live a life of restraint and self-control, we don’t want to do it. As a result, we’re not teaching, correcting, and disciplining our children to live lives ofobedience. For the last fifty years or so, we’ve been churning out a generation of nerds. The men in our country face some special challenges. With no discipline or restraint, look at the crop of men we’ve produced. Whatever happened to manhood? Some fathers teach their sons to shave. Others teach them how to be men. Teach your boys how to be men.
I think the most important values we can teach our children are a healthy fear of God and the importance of hard work. Too many of our children are no longer willing to work for what they want. They feel they’re entitled to every new gadget and toy because we’ve spoiled them and didn’t teach them that you have to work for what you want. I think that’s why America turned into a nation of entitlement. It’s the scourge of work. Our children want to live their lives but don’t want any pain from hard work—only the pleasure. Too many of our children never experience blood, sweat, and tears. We want everyone to feel like they’ve won no matter what. Our society tells us we can’t have winners and losers because it hurts our children’s self-esteem. We can no longer discipline our children or put them to work because it might hurt their feelings. Well, we’ve created a generation of fat, lazy children as a result. When they grow to become adults, they’re still looking for their mamas and daddies—or the government—to bail them out. We need to get back to teaching our children personal responsibility and the virtues of hard work.
If we’re going to save our children, we have to put God back into the equation. When I went to grade school, we prayed beforethe start of every school day. Now you can’t even pray in schools or at school-sponsored events like football games. Since our schools no longer teach our children family values and godliness, it’s up to us to ensure it happens—it’s really been our responsibility all along. Our children’s brains are like computers. They’re going to be programmed by what we put into them. If we leave Jesus Christ and godly values out of what we’re teaching them, they’ll grow up to be adults whose brains are filled with filth.
It’s up to us as believers to help get American families back into churches and Sunday school classes. Those of us who do attend church don’t do enough outside of the church buildings. The American model of Christianity is to attend church on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night—and only a small segment of the population goes to church that frequently. But we have to remember that we have no impact on people outside of Jesus when we’re inside the church building. Instead of the church being salt and light in our culture, too many of our church pews are sitting empty on Sundays. We Christians have to be that salt and light during our everyday lives.
We never forced Christianity on our boys. We prayed that they would make the decision to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, but we never told them
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