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Actor and Crocoduck-creating super-Christian Kirk Cameron is promoting a great article on his website that offers rather questionable advice for parents: Never explain things to your kids; just teach them to obey:
Children are not in need of lengthy, compelling explanations. What they are in need of is the understanding that God must be obeyed.
Children from 6-12 must be encouraged to obey because they know this pleases God. Your discussions will be more involved than with young children, but again you are not trying to win their approval. You want them to grasp how important it is to trust God and the reliability of his word. This type of training will yield a conscience that is sensitive to the things of God.
It doesnt take much insight to realize that teenagers and long explanations dont go well together. Obedience with teenagers is to be primarily be focused on helping them see the value of following God because they love him and that Gods ways are the only ones that can be trusted. Your goal is to have conversations not explanations.
Nutcase Kirk Cameron: How To Raise Children
The only way liberalism survives is by keeping the subject in a state of drugged altered perception.
The only way liberalism survives is by keeping the subject in a state of drugged altered perception.
You're not exactly a beacon of clarity, particularly considering how often you lie on this forum.
I believe he is trying to say do not answer to your children. You do not have to explain your decisions to them when it comes to being their parent. You do not answer to your children, your children answer to you. I remember a situation where a 15 yr old demanded her father explain himself concerning a decision that was none of her business. To my amazement he did and her response was to curse him out. Obviously his method wasn't working. She was in juvenile detention before her 16th birthday. Children need boundaries. They need to understand that God set the world by boundaries - that boundaries are healthy and one boundary is that parents have a God given responsibility to train their children in the way they should go.
Many things should be explained to children at appropriate ages but conferring with them on a decision that should be made by the parent is not a good idea.
That has never stopped progressives from sticking their nose in other peoples lives.I believe he is trying to say do not answer to your children. You do not have to explain your decisions to them when it comes to being their parent. You do not answer to your children, your children answer to you. I remember a situation where a 15 yr old demanded her father explain himself concerning a decision that was none of her business. To my amazement he did and her response was to curse him out. Obviously his method wasn't working. She was in juvenile detention before her 16th birthday. Children need boundaries. They need to understand that God set the world by boundaries - that boundaries are healthy and one boundary is that parents have a God given responsibility to train their children in the way they should go.
Many things should be explained to children at appropriate ages but conferring with them on a decision that should be made by the parent is not a good idea.
Safe bet everyone of the detractors in this thread ,don't or haven't raised children.
The only way liberalism survives is by keeping the subject in a state of drugged altered perception.
You're not exactly a beacon of clarity, particularly considering how often you lie on this forum.
Disagreeing with liberals is not lying.
You're not exactly a beacon of clarity, particularly considering how often you lie on this forum.
Disagreeing with liberals is not lying.
Fabricating and stating your opinions as fact, is.
That has never stopped progressives from sticking their nose in other peoples lives.
That has never stopped progressives from sticking their nose in other peoples lives.
I'll remember that when conservatives stop telling me who to love, stop peeking in my bedroom window and stop telling women what to do with their bodies, mkay?
That has never stopped progressives from sticking their nose in other peoples lives.
Look who's talking. Conservatives and regressives love sticking their noses in other people's lives, just on a different set of issues. You're two sides of the same coin. 
That has never stopped progressives from sticking their nose in other peoples lives.
Children from 6-12 must be encouraged to obey because they know this pleases God. Your discussions will be more involved than with young children, but again you are not trying to win their approval. You want them to grasp how important it is to trust God and the reliability of his word. This type of training will yield a conscience that is sensitive to the things of God.
