Success in Your Home – Part 2
Dr RJ Sing · 1 min read
“I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. 13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father. 14 I have written to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.”
A father has two obligations towards his children. First, Communication and second, Education and the order is important. If the channels of communication between fathers and children are not kept open then the father will be frustrated in his task of education. The child must also be willing to receive it.
In order to maintain communication, a father must guard against two opposite attitudes in his children. Rebellion on the one hand and discouragement on the other. Therefore he must give time and attention to each child and he must cultivate each child as an individual personality. No two children in the family are the same and remember that, discipline that will help one child will crush the other.
One child will receive correction in a form that will merely provoke rebellion from another. Through experience, I have learned that a father/mother by anger, unfairness or indifference, can provoke their children.
From the September 2016 issue, themed I am a Champion.
