Tell your children the correct answers to christianity applied questions. When I see a dispute online, perhaps about God’s design for women, or something cultural, I have so much fun striking up the question (unbeknownst of the online prompt) with my kids in terms they understand, and telling them the correct answer. Once they’re adults you have to state some of your opinions to your children more cautiously, or not speak, but when they’re children they in a unique way love to have your time and learn from you. They want to be molded. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
You not only can teach your views authoritatively, scripture says you must. This is such a special window of time. 🌻
Sadly many parents do the opposite. They get too domineering with teenage or adult children, but were lazy and distracted when they had the chance to mold them as young ones!
Tell them about the things you’re reading.
Mothers should be constantly teaching. Never shy away from the question, “what does our family believe about this?” Tell them the Bible’s wisdom on the issues you see around town or in your social circles. Narrate aloud what you’re doing around the house to your girls to teach them how and why to clean and cook, and why you make the decisions you do for housekeeping matters.
A woman is blessed whose adult children have great likemindedness to her.
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.” Proverbs 1
