Your child, your teacher?

'Imperfect Mum'  |  Features  |  imperfect parenting
Date posted:  1 Apr 2021
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Your child, your teacher?

Our children can teach us important lessons and remind us of crucial truths. Though our parenting mindset is necessarily focused on being the teacher (even more so during a national lockdown), we need to be open to the possibility that maybe, just maybe, we can learn from our own children.

By their very nature, our children will be unaware when they are imparting some lesson to us, and as Christian parents, we need to be humble enough to learn from them.

I was recently reminded of an important truth by one of my older children: being raised in a Christian home is a privilege. She said: ‘I’ve realised how lucky I am to be in a Christian family.’

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