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  • Wisdom From Consequences (10-15-2009)

     

    TODAY’S SCRIPT:

    Proverbs 12:15 says, “The way of the fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.”

    In parenting, God often uses pain as the instrument to move a child from foolish or dangerous thinking into wisdom.  Pain in the life of a child happens when he experiences the consequences of his behavior. 

    But it’s hard for some parents to tolerate their child feeling any form of pain, so they rescue their child from experiencing the consequences.

    For teenagers, inappropriate behavior changes only when the pleasure received from wrong choices is overridden by the pain of the consequences.  So parents need to learn to let consequences happen, or they’ll be rescuing their teen again and again, for their entire life.


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