Proverbs
22:6
Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray.
Talking
With Our Children
Something
has changed in our lives while raising our young children. We are
talking to them less and listening to them less than in earlier
years. Instead we are intent on talking on our mobile devices and
listening to them as well.
Meanwhile
we are DIS-CONNECTING with our children – our most valuable asset.
They see and hear us talking; but not with
them!
The
consequences of these changes are mind-boggling!
“Teachable
Moments” are
lost to idle chatter. Rather than engaging our child in
conversation, we are indirectly de-valuing their existence or their
interests.
Worse
yet, we are modeling this disinterest – this detachment.
In
the same vein I wonder if we still read to our children from good
books. Books with pictures and conversational topics. Or has
handing him/her an iPad replaced even that depth of togetherness?
I
worry about what this type of omission will create in the
socialization skills of our children.
Show
me how to listen and to really hear my children, dear Lord, I pray.
Amen.
Janet
Munson
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