PARENTING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION:

Two stories making the rounds on TV, and a family I’ve been with lately, have reminded me about the direction family life needs to flow:The bizarre tale of the six-year-old lad, his publicity seeking parents, and their strange looking balloon contraption is one account. (click here for story) The other is one more in the continuing parade of moms trying to live vicariously through their little girl’s beauty pageant successes. On the other hand, the real life--real in my life--folk I spoke of have gotten it right. They realize that God placed children in our homes not primarily so we could benefit from them, but so that we can invest ourselves in them. “Bring them up . . .” Ephesians 6 says. That means that we must seek to provide children what they need--which is often different from what they want, or we want, for that matter--to become the kind of women and men that God wants them to be.Parents are the key. It’s STTA, and, if you are a parent, Something to Do!