God Bless Responsible Parenthood
Faustino de Jesús Zamora Vargas
SUMMARY: As Christian parents, it is important to instill eternal values in our children, such as compassion, trust in God, integrity, respect for authority, and love for God and others. However, negative parenting styles such as negligent, permissive, and controlling parenting can hinder this. Negligent parenting creates insecure children, permissive parenting leads to disobedience and rebellion, and controlling parenting sows fear and insecurity in children's hearts. Affectionate parenting, on the other hand, provides acceptance and affirmation, allowing children to feel important and prepared to assume responsibility. As parents, we should strive for responsible parenthood and instill these values in our children, so that they may one day exercise authority over their own families with love, according to God's precepts.
Let's talk about parenting based on divine principles and the word of God. Paternity as a whole, not only referring to the father, but also to the mother, as when we say: -my parents gave me a good education- and here it refers to the father and the mother. Postmodernity has led us down dark paths when it comes to governance and parenting and the diverse styles of parenting that still prevail are varied. Unfortunately, negative parenting styles are still the majority. That is the importance of knowing what we are doing with our children as Christian parents.
It's easy to talk about values; It is difficult to establish them so that the children grow up in integrity and with healthy motivations for life. We arrive at parenthood carrying a bundle of vital dysfunctions that have shaped our character throughout our lives; childhood wounds produced by the low acceptance of a negligent and indifferent father or mother, hidden grudges towards the father figure for a serious injustice committed in our adolescence, unresolved conflicts with an excessively controlling and little affective mother. And so we also come to the feet of Christ and the conflicts begin between the flesh that wants to do the opposite of God's will and the Spirit that begins to do its work of inner healing and to restore all that is damaged.
It's easy to talk about values; It is difficult to establish them so that the children grow up in integrity and with healthy motivations for life. We arrive at parenthood carrying a bundle of vital dysfunctions that have shaped our character throughout our lives; childhood wounds produced by the low acceptance of a negligent and indifferent father or mother, hidden grudges towards the father figure for a serious injustice committed in our adolescence, unresolved conflicts with an excessively controlling and little affective mother. And so we also come to the feet of Christ and the conflicts begin between the flesh that wants to do the opposite of God's will and the Spirit that begins to do its work of inner healing and to restore all that is damaged.
