Category: The Blessed Home
Words of Life
It often seems like the end of the day finds me full of resentment and despairing of my parenting skills, and our home seems full of disarray and hurt feelings. This is not necessarily due to disobedient children as much as it is to constant bickering and whining between my kids. What can be done about this from a Torah perspective?
To begin, let us call to mind the truths found in two of the articles in this issue: "The Power of Speech" and "The Tasteless Trap"—both writers emphasize the importance of our words and the contents of our speech. We are admonished to "Seek peace and pursue it" (I Peter 3:11). What better place to begin than in the home with the young and impressionable lives that He has entrusted to us.
No child can enjoy or benefit from a constant ‘state of war’ in the home! Peace in the home begins with the parents, therefore the necessary starting point is to examine your witness and example before your children. It is too easy to present ‘negativity’ about our days, jobs, finances, etc. before our children. Matthew 12:36 provides a stern word against not controlling our speech. "For every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgement." No amount of negative criticism about our bosses, friends, or co-workers, will help a situation—it will only add to the tension and distrust.
Parents are the first images of love that are imprinted in a child’s mind. This is good if loving words of life flow from the parents, but disastrous if they use their words improperly. Children learn through mimicking that which they observe, and are therefore imitators of the adults in their lives. Thus the question is, what can we do to prevent a negative backlash in our homes?...
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