Parenting Todays Teens Radio
  • Instrument Of Change (1-31-2011)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    God often uses pain as the instrument to move His children from foolish thinking to wisdom.  Likewise, consequences in the lives of our own children can bring about corrected behavior.

    It’s hard for some parents to allow their child to feel any form of pain from consequences, so they rescue them. But for teenagers, inappropriate behavior changes only when the pleasure received from wrong choices is overridden by the pain of consequences.  I’m not talking about physical pain, but the loss of certain freedoms for a time.

    So, parents need to learn to allow consequences happen, and not lessen them, or they’ll start a cycle of having to rescue their child again and again, from ever increasing wrongdoing, for their entire life.


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