Ed Young - Practical Parenting

January 3, 2025 | S25:E3

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Practical Parenting | January 3, 2025

Pastor ed young: there's never been a better time than right
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Now to make god a priority in your life.
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That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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First," number one.
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And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
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Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
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Through life.
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It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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Become all that god has designed you to become.
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Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
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♪♪♪
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Pastor ed: we hear a lot about colors.
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Red states, blue states, purple states, white, green,
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Black, orange.
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We hear a lot about colors, but there's one color that is a
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Very, very dangerous color.
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I don't think you could guess what it is.
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It is an angry color.
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It is a dangerous color.
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It is a color that breeds discord and the color is gray.
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Gray is pigment without any colors.
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All the colors are absent.
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It's just sort of a bland gray.
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And gray is a very, very dangerous color.
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Somebody might say, i thought we'd talk about parenting.
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What does that have to do with parenting?
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I can tell you what it has to do with parenting.
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It has everything to do with parenting.
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You have a gray father who is passive.
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You can predict with almost unerring accuracy the plight of
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The sons of the daughters of a gray dad.
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You can find a mom who is gray and just going through
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The motions.
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It's such a labor, it's such a problem.
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It's exhausting, and you can find children that will turn out
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Tragically like their mom.
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What does it mean to say someone is gray?
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Someone is gray comes out of a lot of our colleges and
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Universities because there are no absolutes.
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You have your truth.
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Oh, i have my truth.
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Whether something is right and wrong, depends upon
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The situation.
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There's nothing you can say that is the way it is.
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That is the way.
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Oh, no, no.
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Everything has to be gray.
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Everything has to be negotiable.
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Everything has to be open.
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But i've got good news.
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♪ the stars at night are big and bright, where? ♪
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Pitiful.
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♪ the stars at night are big and bright, where? ♪♪
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Now, what does that mean?
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Why are the stars at night big and bright deep in the heart
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Of texas?
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I dare say there's only a handful of us here know where
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The heart of texas is located.
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Only a handful.
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It's located in brady, texas, ten miles out to the northeast.
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That's the very heart and central point in texas.
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And brady is a small town.
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It is noted for only one thing, dr. rudder, who was president of
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Texas a&m.
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He's the product of this wide spot in the road almost in the
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Very heart of texas.
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Now, why are the stars at night big and bright
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In the heart in brady, texas?
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Do you know why?
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It's because there's no ambient lights, there's nothing
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Competing with the darkness except you look up and the stars
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At night are big and bright.
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Decisiveness.
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Clarity.
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And when something is gray or someone is gray, there is no
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Deci-- too many competing lights, too many competing
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Agendas, too much noise, too much racket.
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But when there is clarity and that's our problem with
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Parenting, ladies and gentlemen.
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You take any mom and dad and say here's a baby that you've
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Been given.
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What is your goal for that child?
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Well, i want them to be upwardly mobile.
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I hope they're educated, and i hope they have more than i have,
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And i hope-- just some sort of general type of things.
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If you've ever been bird hunting and you think you shotgun, you
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Shoot up there without aiming, chances are you'll hit nothing.
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You'll hit nothing.
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And therefore parents need to know what their goal is.
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What are you trying to develop?
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What would god have you to build into that son and that daughter?
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It has to be a clear thing, a clear definition and that's
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Exactly what we're talking about, isn't it?
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We've been saying, "train up a child in the way he should go."
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Review here for most of us, you may have missed it.
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The way is one way.
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You could train up our children.
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I could train up my children in many ways, but there's really
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One way to train up a child, according to the bible.
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You can read all the psychologists, all the modern
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Books, but god has one way to do it.
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We talked about it in training, train them to love god with all
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They got, first commandment.
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Love god with everything, first and foremost.
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Secondly, train them to love people, love your neighbor, try
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To love-- that we can't as much as we love ourselves, but that's
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Our goal.
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The third thing is bandera, the bandera principle.
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Most of you had a little psychology.
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You don't know who that is.
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Bandera said the way you best teach people is by example, is
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By saying, walk after me, do as i do, live as i live,
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Follow me, follow me.
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That's the principle, and that's the third thing.
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Teach our kids to love god with all they've got.
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Teach our kids how to love people, and you know how they
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Learn to do that, by looking at mom and dad, and we have to say,
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That's the way i want to live, obeying those first two
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Commandments that jesus said has priority of all the other rules
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And regulations.
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Not going too fast for anybody am i?
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God doesn't make it exceedingly complex.
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It is relatively simple and therefore, i would do anything
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In the world for my kids.
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Model jesus christ in your life.
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Oh, because remember they do pretty much what we require them
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To do until they become teenagers and they begin to do
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And live the way you and i live.
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The way you and i do things, the way you and i think.
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Train up a child.
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When we're doing that, we're not gray parents are we?
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We are decisive.
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We see what god's goal is.
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And then we looked at bringing up a child, remember?
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We looked at proverbs training, then we looked to ephesians in
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Chapter number 6, it says bring up a child in the discipline,
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Big word, and instruction, oh, of the lord.
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And we discovered that discipline primarily takes place
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Between, remember the ages 3 to 13.
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That's when mom and dad really has a role in the eyes and the
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Life of that son or daughter of god.
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That is when we bring them to submission.
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That is when we say this is the way it is, this is how
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Things operate.
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And therefore we take over the authority of our children
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Between 3 and 13.
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If you don't, oh, that's when you have so many problems with
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Teenagers because they haven't learned that when you say yes,
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You mean yes, you say no, you say no.
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And if you don't do that from 3 to 13, you're in for a long,
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Long, tough ride mom and dad.
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It can change, but it's much more difficult.
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So, discipline first.
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And then after that, there is instruction.
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This is when we talk with them, this is when we explain.
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In those years, 3 to 13, we say you do this, you don't do this.
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You stop, here, you go there and they say, well, why?
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Because i said so, that's enough!
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That's what happens during those years.
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And then the years from 13 followed, it's so much easier
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Because they, you've established a sense of authority, then you
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Can explain.
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Then you can go in the other details that needs to
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Take place.
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We've already been through this.
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Some of you, you missed it.
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Foundational principles of not being a gray mom and dad.
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Clarity, distinctiveness, understanding the goal
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Right there.
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And then we're still in proverbs.
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I wanna show you another little pregnant verse, that's in the
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Same chapter that we find, "train up a child."
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It's in chapter number 22, verse number 15, "foolishness is bound
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Up in the heart of the child, and the answer for that is the
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Rod of discipline will remove it far from him."
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Foolishness is bound up in the mind of a child.
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That's our challenge.
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Children are fools.
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Oh boy, oh how my child is.
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Oh, no.
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Children are fools because they cannot determine that which is
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Best for themselves.
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They have free will, but they do not have the ability to make
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Those wise choices, do they?
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No.
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A child is self centered.
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A child is all about me.
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A child is all about what i want, what i like, what gives me
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Pleasure, what i love to eat.
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That's children.
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And we can encourage that foolishness, illustration.
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Here's a five year old says to mama, "i want with my friends
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Are having to spend the night party over at so and so's house
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And i wanna go."
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The mother says, "no, you cannot go," five years old.
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Man, there's a temper tantrum, "why?
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Everybody's going, i'm invited.
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They're going to have a good time."
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But mama knows what will happen at
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That little five year old overnight party.
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Mama knows the family, the home in which those children will
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Spend the night.
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And so mama without any explanation says no and there's
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A temper tantrum.
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And then mama says, "well, maybe i made a mistake, you know,
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Maybe i acted too hasty.
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Maybe we need to consider," and then that mother starts to
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Negotiate with the child, a five year old, folks?
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That's the modern world.
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You have to cooperate with your children.
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Let me tell you something, if no doesn't work and you have to
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Bribe-- animals, you trained by food and by punishment.
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Not humans, not children.
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It doesn't work that way ladies and gentlemen.
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And if that mother begins to negotiate with that child, you
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Mark it down, wait till that child gets to be a teenager.
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You know, i don't know why my teenagers like this.
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It's because a father and a mother didn't establish clear
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Without shouting, absolute authority between 3 and 13.
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A child has a foolish heart because they cannot determine
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With their own understanding with their background, how to
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Really make wise choices, so fathers and mothers have to step
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In and without argument, without debate, without negotiation,
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Without manipulation, without rewards,
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This is the way we do it.
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You do that from 3 to 13, the teenage years would be a blast.
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It won't be perfect but it'll be infinite easier.
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Throw a temper tantrum ho ho.
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So then train up a child the way they should go because the child
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Has a heart that is foolish.
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Anybody want to debate the foolish of a child's heart?
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No, we understand that.
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What is the answer for that?
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This will surprise you.
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It is the latter part of that 15th verse.
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Look at it.
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The rod, "the rod of discipline will remove it far from him."
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"the rod of discipline will remove it far from him."
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You know the verse.
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"spare the rod spoil the child."
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Everybody mirror that verse only one problem that is not in
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The bible.
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Hello?
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Oh, i thought, no, no, no.
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"spare the rod, spoil the child," is not in the bible.
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Look for it. can't find it.
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All of us who raised our hand, woop it's not there.
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But what is there?
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It's the instructions, the latter part of what we do about
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Foolishness in the heart of a child as parents.
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It says this is what we do.
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The rod, "the rod of discipline will move it far from him."
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You see the rod of discipline.
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Now, the rod there is in the definite article, what does
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That mean?
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It means that the rod, it is a specific procedure by which we
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Engage in as parents to get the foolish out of our children.
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A rod, not the baseball player, a rod is an indefinite article.
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Rod is used many times in the bible for many things.
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It's used for staff.
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It's used for what the shepherd has, it's used and that is
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A rod.
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You find it over there in exodus chapter number 21.
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A rod can be harmful.
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It is a harm.
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It is a rod, it is a stick, it is a bar, it is a limb, it is
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Something that will harm.
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But the rod doesn't mean discipline can't be in there.
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But the rod says this is the program, the way god has planned
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For you to get foolishness out of your child.
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Do you get the difference?
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The rod is a definite article every time you see it in
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The bible.
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And it says this is god's program.
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This is the way god operates it's the rod.
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It's the program.
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The agenda.
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And you can look at, you can also, you can turn in your bible
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To the very next chapter over to proverbs 23.
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It says, "apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to
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Words of knowledge.
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Do not hold back discipline from the child.
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Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die."
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The rod is not a stick.
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That is a rod.
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The rod is god's principles for getting foolishness out of your
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Sons and daughters.
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Do you get that?
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It's very important.
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Well, you say you don't believe in spanking?
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You don't believe in corporate punishment?
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Yes, but we'll deal with that next time in more detail and
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More practicality.
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But in the meantime, this verse doesn't say every time your
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Child steps out of line, bam.
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Some people think that.
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Oh he did this bam, slap.
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But no, no, no.
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It says that we understand god's program for bringing
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Up children.
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And that is the rod.
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That is a definite article.
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A rod is a stick or a board as you see it in the bible.
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My point, a child's heart is foolish and we have to deal with
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That foolishness, with diligence, with
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Conscientiousness and knowing that our big goal, what we built
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In for our children to be and our children to become.
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And it says we drive it out by what?
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What do we drive it about by?
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Right here in the scripture.
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Go back to our scripture.
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It's very clearly.
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It says the rod, the rod, remember the rod is the
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Principles of god will remove foolishness from that child.
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Now, let's be practical for a moment.
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What is the modus operandi of parenting?
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Unconditional love.
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That's what works in all of this.
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That's how we're able to discipline, to instruct.
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It's because they know our parents modus operandi is love
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And we want them to know a couple of things, to know that
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They are important and to know that they're safe.
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Know that they're important and know that they're safe.
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And they know that big time most of all by discipline.
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They know they're loved because we care enough for them to go
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Out of the way.
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It's easier to bribe a child, to appease a child, to stop
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The crying.
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But how do we use this modus operandi, this unconditional
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Love practically in the whole area of getting the foolishness
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Out of our sons and daughters.
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First of all, we have to control them with our eyes.
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We have to control them with our eyes.
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A baby is born.
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What about, for about three weeks to five weeks, their eyes
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Are trying to focus, okay?
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About five weeks to eight weeks, their eyes just flit around.
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They're looking anywhere.
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When they get about eight weeks up, their eyes begin to slow
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Down and they're all looking for something.
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What is it?
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They're looking for eyes.
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They're looking for the eyes of that mother, the eyes of
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That person.
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The eye is so important.
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Parents need to understand.
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Parents that sort of look at their children, glance at them
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And look over here and they're talking over here, you instruct,
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You communicate love, or discipline with your eyes.
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Going back to school.
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I had an english teacher maiden named miss satterfield.
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She was something and the way she disciplined was that when
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You're doing something wrong, she would say.
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She wouldn't say a word, she'd just looked at you.
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We call it the satterfield eye, and i'm telling you if it were
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On you, you straightened up.
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I've used that for years, but it works.
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So your eyes, we physically contact them with their eyes.
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It is so important for parents.
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Any personality, ever talk to somebody, they sort of talk to
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You like this.
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I don't mean you just stare them down to people, look
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In your eyes.
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No, you just confidently look at people with their eyes.
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Parents, that's the way our children, our babies
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Understand love.
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Also, there is the physical contact, the eye contact,
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The physical contact.
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There needs to be hugs, there need to be kisses,
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They need to be touch.
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Even particularly a teenage girl used to be a teenager.
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Her dad needs to hug her in the right way, hug her.
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In fact, there's a study been done.
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I don't know how accurate is that everybody needs ten hugs
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A day.
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That just helps everything.
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This is nothing to do with sensuality.
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By the way, they have large professional huggers all over
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America now.
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It is not prostitution, it's not anything sensual.
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They're just people who go around and they hug people in
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Rest homes.
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After covid, they were really popular and they just go and hug
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People and hug people.
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One lady i read about made over $300,000 a year as a hugger, a
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Professional hugger.
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Why?
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By our eyes, we communicate, we care, we love by hugging and
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Affection in the right way.
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We communicate that.
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We all need about ten hugs a day.
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This is what we have.
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Also, there needs to be not only eye contact, physical contact,
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There has to be emotional contact.
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Study your baby, study your son, your daughter and get to know
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Them and understand their heart and somehow bind your heart
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Around their heart.
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And then you begin really to be a successful parent in the
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21st century.
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It starts way back during pregnancy.
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Certainly when they're born.
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These are biblical principles that are beautiful when we
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Practice them.
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We see wonderful things coming through the life of your
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Children, and my children and my grandchildren.
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This is how we do it.
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Tommy edison was in the second grade.
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He came home from school one day, and tommy gave his mother a
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Note and said mother this note is from the teacher, and she
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Told me to give it to you.
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And the note read, "dear mrs. edison," and as the mother read
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It to little tommy, he said, read it to me and with tears in
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Her eyes that she's read.
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"dear mrs. edison, your son, tommy is brilliant.
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He's a genius.
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He's far beyond the ability of any teacher in this school to
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Teach him.
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You're going to have to teach him at home.
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He's not welcome back here because he is far, far beyond
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Anything we can do."
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So mrs. edison taught her son at home.
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He became thomas edison, perhaps one of the most creative minds
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Ever produced, not only in america, but in the world.
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When his mother died, years later, he was looking through
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Some things in a drawer.
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And according to his memoir, he saw that little note that he'd
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Carried home to his mother.
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And he said, you know, i want to read that note myself.
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And the note didn't say what his mother said that it said, the
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Note said, your son is addled, that meant mentally ill in
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That day.
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We won't let him come back to school here any more.
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You'll have to teach him.
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Edison said when he read that he cried and cried for hours.
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And then he wrote in his memoir, these words, thomas alva edison
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Was an addled child that a hero mother became, became the genius
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Of the century.
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Mom and dad, everybody may give up on your son and daughter
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Because they say, oh, they're fools, but a mom and dad who
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Brings a child up, teaching, loving with unconditional love.
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You'll be amazed at what that son and daughter will become.
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Pastor ed: of all the responsibilities god has
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Entrusted to me, i can't think of more thrilling or challenging
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One than being a parent.
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Our kids are a gift from the almighty.
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We are to nurture them, to teach them, to build of them the right
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Stuff as sons and daughters.
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As you've probably figured out by now, parenting is truly a
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Full time job and sometimes it could be an overwhelming task.
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But thankfully, we do not have to do it alone.
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You can begin today by admitting that you don't have all
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The answers.
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I certainly don't.
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And then we turn to the one who does, god.
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God's word, the bible offers practical principles for
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Parenting today and every single day.
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So stop relying on yourself and your own knowledge and skills
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And instead start depending on god and his divine wisdom.
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He invented the family.
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Invite jesus to be the leader in your home.
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And i can't think of anyone more qualified than jesus.
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Can you?
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Practical Parenting

January 3, 2025 | S25:E3

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