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Your Kids Need Your Compassion - Daily Hope with Rick Warren - August 24, 2024

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Your Kids Need Your Compassion
By Rick Warren

Let us love one another, for love comes from God.” 1 John 4:7 (NIV)

If you want to know how to be a good parent and build a strong family, you dont have to search online or go to a bookstore. Look no further than the greatest book ever written on parenting: Gods Word, the Bible.

The Bible says in 1 John 4:7, Let us love one another, for love comes from God” (NIV).

More than anything else, kids need unwavering and unconditional love. There needs to be a place where they’re accepted just as they are, without question, including all of their faults.

What is compassion? Compassion is a combination of love and understanding. Compassion is where you know everything about someone and you still like that person.

Love is not natural. You have to learn to love. And you learn to love by practicing. What better place to practice than with the people youre forced to live with all your life? If you can learn to love your family, you can love anybody. Why? Because it’s easy to love people at a distance, but when youre with them all the time, you dont always get along. When you practice love in the family, youre learning to truly love.

This is a common thing: we love our kids, but we dont express it in a way they can understand. Children understand love in three ways: affection, affirmation, and attention.

1. Affection. Children need lots of hugs and kisses, pats on the back, holding of hands, cuddles and more. They need to feel your love.

2. Affirmation. You need to tell your kids every day—and more than once a day—how much you love them. Affirm them and build them up with love.

3. Attention. One of the greatest gifts you can give others is listening to them. When you look at children on their level, youre saying, You matter to me. Youre important to me. I want to hear what you have to say.” In doing this, you show compassion.

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