VI. Children are spiritually blinded by sin and must be taught to see. A. What was going on? B. What were you thinking and feeling as it was going on? C. What did you do in response? D. Why did you do this? E. What was the result? VII. Parenting requires time and self-evaluation: In order to get at the hearts of your children, you have to start with your own heart. SESSION 5 VIII. A child’s development in the first five years, ages 0-5. IX. Parents’ central focus in this time must be authority. A. God’s authority. B. Parents as God’s agents of authority. X. God’s “circle of safety.” A. Obedience. B. Honoring. XI.Two “lies in the garden”: A. Autonomy. B. Self-sufficiency. SESSION 6 XII. The exercise of parental discipline: A. A mission of rescue and restoration. B. God has established the rod as the primary tool for exercising parental discipline. C. The root problem addressed by discipline is folly. D. Instruction on when and how to administer the rod. SESSION 7 XIII. A child’s development in the middle years, ages 6-12. XIV. Parents’ central focus in this time must be character development. XV. Character training takes time. XVI. Your children were made to live with “God-awareness.” XVII.All human beings chafe at God-awareness because we are idolators.
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