Definitions of Family:
Family: one or more parents and their children living together in a unit. TRADIONAL DEFINITION
Family: Any group of people closely related by blood or marriage, as parents, children, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. CONTEMPORARY DEFINITION
Instructions to the Family:
Teach your children right from wrong, and when they are grown, they will still do right.
Proverbs 22:5, Contemporary English Version
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverb 22:6, King James Version
Point your children in the right direction—
When they are old, they won’t be lost.
Proverbs 22:6, The Message
Work of Family
Teach, train, point – all these verbs imply intentional quality time.
Teach, train, point – all these verbs imply that we are observing our children.
Teach, train, point – all these verbs imply discipline, that is, teaching, training, pointing out that which will produce specific behaviors that are beneficial for our children as well as for those who live with and around them.
Results of Teaching, Training, Pointing
While we are teaching, training, and pointing our children, we must teach, train, and point our lives in meaningful directions. Children are wise. They hear our words, then do what we do.
Reflections
List three (3) things that you are teaching your children that will benefit them and others around them.
Consider two (2) negatives behaviors that you are teaching your children and write down specific ways you can use to enable yourself and them to avoid these acts.
Dorothy Watson Tatem, D.Min., ACC
Senior Associate
Next Step Associates, LLC
Cassandra W. Jones, Ed.D.
CEO & President
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