Dear One ,
You have seen that things can work out fine without your intervention and interference. You have seen that people can live their lives without your intervention and interference.
Very often, parents enter into the lives of their older children, usurping the natural process of the children's maturation by the parents always being there to be the answer to every problem. A parent's persistence in being the answer is unwise because the parent is stifling the child's ability to discern good and evil, and the parent cripples the child's emotional growth. Good parents would never physically cripple their children but they emotionally cripple their children by refusing to let them find their own solutions.
If a parent always provides solutions, then the child never learns to find solutions himself. Taking a hand-off approach to your family is often just as important as the hands-on approach. Discern which approach is needed in every situation, under girding every situation with intense prayer.
Love, God
Luke 2:40-50
You have seen that things can work out fine without your intervention and interference. You have seen that people can live their lives without your intervention and interference.
Very often, parents enter into the lives of their older children, usurping the natural process of the children's maturation by the parents always being there to be the answer to every problem. A parent's persistence in being the answer is unwise because the parent is stifling the child's ability to discern good and evil, and the parent cripples the child's emotional growth. Good parents would never physically cripple their children but they emotionally cripple their children by refusing to let them find their own solutions.
If a parent always provides solutions, then the child never learns to find solutions himself. Taking a hand-off approach to your family is often just as important as the hands-on approach. Discern which approach is needed in every situation, under girding every situation with intense prayer.
Love, God
Luke 2:40-50
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