7 PIECES OF WISDOM EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW

1.  Your child needs your presence more than your presents.

Money, clothes, and good schools matter, but children remember the time you spent listening, guiding, praying, and being there for them.

2.  Correct the behavior without destroying the child.

A child can make a mistake without becoming a bad person. Discipline should teach, not humiliate.

3.  What you model, your children learn.

They watch how you speak to your spouse, handle anger, treat the poor, use money, and respond to difficult situations.

4.  Never compare your child with another child.

Every child has a different journey, gift, personality, and pace of growth. Comparison can create insecurity and resentment.

5.  Teach values before the world teaches them.

Teach your children honesty, responsibility, respect, faith, compassion, discipline, and the courage to say no to wrong things.

6.  Let your children fail sometimes.

Protecting children from every difficulty can leave them unprepared for life. Allow age-appropriate consequences and teach them how to rise after failure.

7.  Pray for your children—and pray with them.

You cannot control every person they will meet or every road they will take. But you can give them a foundation of faith and continually place their lives in God's hands.

A final word to every parent:

Your children may forget many things you bought for them, but they will rarely forget how you made them feel, how you treated them, and the values you planted in their hearts.

NOW YOU KNOW