What are some of the scripture passages that you use in the Parenting by THE BOOK seminar?
Here are a sample, several of dozens: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. (Genesis 2:24) This passage is the foundation of God’s plan for child-rearing. It clearly states that the marriage is to form the nucleus of the family, and that parents are to have one perspective toward their children and act as one body (one flesh) toward and on behalf of their children. One of the great tragedies of modernity is that in many families, the mother-child relationship has displaced the primacy of the marriage. First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. (Matt. 23:26) By paying primary attention to the development of their children’s character and by helping them into a relationship with God, the “outside” of the child’s “cup” will be also clean: i.e., the child will do his best in all endeavors. Many of today’s parents are “parenting Pharisees,” in that they, with every good inte
