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mercredi38
9/15/2008 6:37 PM
I love this article - in fact I am forwarding to a bunch of mom's I know.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon with 3 Battle of Britain veterans who are not long for this world (average age 92). I could not help but think as parents we are not allowing our children to suffer enough consequences in life as to prepare them to be real leaders or warriors.
We have become a very self-centered culture and I see daily how difficult children are finding it to tell the truth, to stand up to their friends when they torment another child, to go a different way when others are cheating. The reality is we are going to soon reap what we have sown, and it breaks my heart to see so many of us a parents equip our kids for self-deceit and ultimate ruin.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon with 3 Battle of Britain veterans who are not long for this world (average age 92). I could not help but think as parents we are not allowing our children to suffer enough consequences in life as to prepare them to be real leaders or warriors.
We have become a very self-centered culture and I see daily how difficult children are finding it to tell the truth, to stand up to their friends when they torment another child, to go a different way when others are cheating. The reality is we are going to soon reap what we have sown, and it breaks my heart to see so many of us a parents equip our kids for self-deceit and ultimate ruin.
ezeuzo1
9/10/2008 1:21 PM
God bless the writer of that article. There is a lot of selfishness and self-centredness tied to this high self-esteem stuff. We DON'T need high self-esteem. We DO need high God-esteem
Annie64
9/6/2008 2:23 AM
I'm so glad somebody finally said it! I have thought for many years that something was fundamentally wrong with the doctrine of self-esteem that is so pervasive in our culture, because the Bible seems to say the exact opposite. Thank you for your bravery in going against what many people believe without question.
marysunkes
9/2/2008 8:09 PM
A link to this article has been posted on the website GoodNewsNow.com.
we also need to balance this with the message that God loves us, no matter what. so many children (even in "christian" homes) are abused/neglected by their own parents and need to know that they are worth loving-that they ARE special to God; as a parent, i see nothing wrong with telling my kids that. as parents, we also do our best to model lives dependent on God. we pray often with our children. we let them see as much of our "everyday" lives as we can. they see that we are not perfect and that we need God so much more than we know. and we teach them to be thankful to God for the blessings...and to be thankful that God is God and that He is good even when things aren't going so well.
it's all in how we, as parents, live (everyday) and how we treat our children that they will undersand that it's not all about us/them.