Child
Training
What to Teach
Children
How should parents
train their children?
“Train a child in
the way he should go, and when he
is old he will not turn from
it.” Proverbs 22:6.
“Fathers, do not exasperate your
children; instead, bring them up
in the training and instruction of
the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4.
How diligently
should parents teach children
God’s Word?
“These
commandments that I gave you today
are to be upon your hearts. Impress
them on your children. Talk
about them when you sit at home and
when you walk along the road, when
you lie down and when you get up.”
Deuteronomy 6:6,7; 11:19.
What high ideal
should be placed before the young?
“Don’t let
anyone look down on you because you
are young, but set an example for
the unbelievers in speech, in life,
in love, in faith and in purity.”
1 Timothy 4:12.
What duty does God
require of children?
“Honor your
father and your mother.” Exodus
20:12.
Correcting
Children – Caution to Parents
How should the
youth be taught to regard the aged?
“Rise in the
presence of the aged, show respect
for the elderly and revere your
God. I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:32.
What
are some good fruits of proper child
training?
“Discipline your
son, and he will give you peace;
he will bring delight to your soul.”
Proverbs 29:17.
What
will happen if correction is
withheld?
“The rod of
correction imparts wisdom, but a
child left to himself disgraces his
mother.”
Verse 15. (See
also Proverbs 22:15.)
Is
there a danger of delaying correction
too long?
“Discipline
your son, for in that there is hope;
do not be a willing party to his
death.”
Proverbs 19:18. (See
Proverbs 23:13, 14.)
Does
proper correction evidence a want of
parental love?
“He who spares
the rod hates his son, but he who
loves him is careful to discipline
him.”
Proverbs 13:24.
Note – One
Christian mother writes concerning
the importance of child training:
“Children who are allowed to
come into manhood or womanhood with
the will disciplined and the passions
uncontrolled, will generally in
after-life pursue a course which God
condemns. The neglect of parents to
properly discipline their children
has been a fruitful source of evil in
many families. The youth have not
been restrained, as they should have
been. Parents have neglected to
follow the directions of the Word of
God in this matter, and the children
have taken the reins of government
into their own hands. The
consequences have been that they have
generally succeeded in ruling their
parents, instead of being under their
authority. False ideas and a foolish,
misdirected affection have nurtured
traits which have made the children
unlovely and unhappy, have embittered
the lives of the parents, and have
extended their baleful influence from
generation to generation. Any child
that is permitted to have their own
way will dishonor God and bring his
father and mother to shame.”
Whom
does the Lord chasten?
“Because the Lord
disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes everyone he accepts
as a son.” Hebrews 12:6.
Note – From this
we may learn that all child training
should be done in love, and that
proper child training is an evidence
of true love.
Against
what evil should fathers guard?
“Fathers, do
not embitter your children, or
they will become discouraged.”
Colossians 3:21.
Note – Correction
should never be done in anger, for
anger in parent’s stirs up anger
in the child. It is well to pray with
a child before correcting him, and
frequently mild but faithful
instruction, admonition, and prayer
are all the training necessary –
are in fact. The best training that
can be given. But in any case of
perverseness, stubbornness, or
willful disobedience the correction,
whatever it may be, should be
persisted in until the child yields
submissively to the will and wishes
of the parent. It is best generally,
that correction should be done in
private, as this tends to preserve
the self-respect of the child, a very
important element in character
building. No correction of training
should be violet of abusive, or given
for the purpose of breaking the will
of the child, but rather to direct
the will, bring it into proper
subjection, and the child to a
realizing sense of what is right and
duty.
How are the present
effects and future results of
God’s chastisements contrasted?
“No discipline
seems pleasant at the time, but
painful. Later on, however, it
produces a harvest of righteousness
and peace for those who have been
trained for it.”
Hebrews 12:11.
Why
did God reprove Eli?
“At that time I
will carry out against Eli everything
I spoke against his family –
from the beginning to the end. For I
told him that I would judge his
family forever because of the sin he
knew about; his sons made
themselves contemptible, and he
failed to restrain them.” 1
Samuel 3:12,13.
What
is to be one of the prominent sins of
the last days?
“People
will be lovers of themselves, lovers
of money, boastful, proud abusive, disobedient
to their parents, ungrateful,
unholy.“ 2 Timothy 3:2.
