Train them

Train Them 

Many people know that a person's character and personality is largely established by the time they are very young. The traits that will define that individual throughout his or her life can be clearly identified when he or she is as little as 7 years old. In a new investigation, scientists show that, by the time they start going to school, children already exhibit the personality traits that will remain with them throughout their lives. This was clearly established in a new paper, written by experts at the University of California in Riverside (UCR), LiveScience reports.

Can you imagined by the time your sons and daughters are eligible for first grade their identity and behavioral traits will be established? For those of you who discount the Bible as an ancient book with no relativity for today's society, think again. Listen to King Solomon's wisdom and advice on raising children, which he wrote many centuries ago in the Proverbs of Solomon, one of the books in the Bible.

"Train up a child in the way he should go,

Even when he is old he will not depart from it."

Proverbs 22:6 (NASB)

Solomon admonishes parents to train their children. Others can and should help you train your children, but foundational training – teaching them how to respect those in authority and adults – begins and ends in the home. If you don't train your children in the privacy of your home, the evidence of that lack of training will be manifested in public, resulting in embarrassment to you the parent.  Solomon also said, "Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children. Those who love their children care enough to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 (NLT)

There is nothing cute about a misbehaving child and there is no such thing as being too young for discipline. As Solomon said, if you love your child, you will discipline them. In closing this blog, you should never discipline in anger because anger opens the door to abuse. Let the training begin before it's too late.

Be Blessed!

Bishop Jemmott