Yesterday, I shared a message on Wisdom from Proverbs 2. As part of the message, my desire was to encourage parents (especially fathers) to parent their children with tenderness, affection, patience, and kindness so as to win their hearts ... and strive to be consistent examples to them of what it means to live for and love the Lord.
I encourage all parents to read these wise word's from Bishop J.C. Ryle in one of his writings entitled, "The Duties of Parents." Here's an excerpt of his words to parents ... click here to read all of it (it's worth it).
"Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, — these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, — these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart. Few are to be found, even among grown-up people, who are not more easy to draw than to drive. There is that in all our minds which rises in arms against compulsion; we set up our backs and stiffen our necks at the very idea of a forced obedience. We are like young horses in the hand of a breaker: handle them kindly, and make much of them, and by and by you may guide them with thread; use them roughly and violently, and it will be many a month before you get the mastery of them at all.
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