I don't know how well I'm going to be able to elaborate on this topic, so I'll just share my notes this time because I think it's the best way to pass on what I think is important.
- The purposes of parenting
- prepare for eternal life
- help children so they can be successful
- learn & grow via responsibilities
- bring people to Christ
- have joy
- feel & become more like Christ (charity)
- creating bodies for God's children
- The biggest resources we have for our teenagers is our relationship with them.
- Mothering =
- great love & concern
- verbal expression of emotions/problems
- relationship oriented
- emphasis on support
- nurture
- Fathering =
- task oriented
- fixes, solutions
- independence
- orient children out into the work
- teaching
- Divorces tend to occur between 2 & 5 years after wedding (after birth of 2nd child)
- The husband should be in the delivery room, not the mother of the woman giving birth!
- The mother will put the new mother in the role of the child & the husband will be left on the sidelines.
- Child care
- husband (& wife)
- responsibility
- Nurture
- wife
- tend, support, comfort
- Having an expert in both areas (child care & nurture) will allow you to cover more territory
- Fathers are portrayed as useless, insignificant, dumb, uncaring in the media (men are only needed to contribute their X or Y chromosome)
- Not true!!!
- Women entering workforce denigrates & removes father's role as breadwinner & mother's role (she's no longer at home to care for the kids)
- My definition of parenting: The purposes of parenting are to provide an enriched environment in which to raise & guide children such that they will be prepared to live a full life when they are out on their own.
- purposes: protect & prepare to survive & thrive in the world
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