You don't have to be a parent to participate. Everyone was a kid at some point, so you know important things they should be taught.
To keep from getting alot of the same obvious answers, try to be specific and let's bypass some of the obvious: be honest, love your parents, love God, be kind to others, accept Jesus as your Savior (parents will feel obligated to list whatever is important to their faith).
This is not a list of the MOST IMPORTANT, so do not feel like you must list the highest priority or the obvious, which will end up having the same thing repeated by everyone over and over. Try to be specific and creative. This your three items with a sentence or two explanation.
IF EVERYONE WILL EMAIL THEIR LIST OF THREE THINGS TO ME, I'LL COMPILE THEM INTO A NICE e-BOOK FOR EVERY ONE (free of course) (brent@brentriggs.com)
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Three Things Every Parent Should Teach Their Kids
- Genuinely respect and learn from the elderly.
Our culture minimizes and dismisses silver hair and experience. We worship youth and physical prowess, relegating the elderly to the status of has-been or burden. Kids should be taught to seek the wisdom, experience and lessons our beloved seasoned citizens have to offer. - The good times will not last forever.
We have lived in an unprecedented stretch of abundance and prosperity. History shows us unequivocably that the good times will never, and can never, last forever. Yet, we have generations of the young who believe prosperity and ease are their RIGHT, and cannot be taken from them. How dangerously wrong this assumption is. - If the world promotes, teaches and elevates almost exactly the opposite of God.
Pretty much anything the world and cultures says is right, best, valuable or important you can almost be assured is exactly the opposite of what God says. The world says "Self", God says "selfless". The world says "power, money, fame"; God says "humility, content, serving others." If the worlds proclaims something as truth (about spiritual or emotional matters), you can safely start with assumption that is probably a lie.
6 comments:
Love your 3 things....and really those are soo paramount. Can't wait to see what everyone else says too.
SWorry I have to comment rather than email, but I can't do an eamil at this time.
1- People are not black and white. They are a beautiful variety of colors that can be made from red, black, yellow, and white. (idea from children's book The Colors of Us) (Also the same colors mentioned in a version of Jesus Loves the Little Children.)
Remember you have two ears and one mouth. Therefore, you should listen twice as much as you speak.
Don't rush to be an adult. It is not as fun as it looks and you will miss the days of you were a child. Take teim to enjoy each stage of life.
That is so true. I agree with your post on all 3 counts.
If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want to be loved,be lovable,if you want a friend, be a friend. Your actions are so much louder than your words or promises. Be what you want others to be to you for you and with you.
Love God.
Love family
Love yourself
Wow, really great advice. I wholeheartedly agree!
Great list. Those are all so very important!
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