THE BEST PARENTING ADVICE IS “LIVING RIGHT,” THROUGH THE BIBLE

 THE BEST PARENTING ADVICE IS “LIVING RIGHT,” THROUGH THE BIBLE

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

 

The citizens of the United States have transformed from people who did a little bit of everything to hiring specialized people or companies to do their chores. People used to have vegetable gardens, serviced their own vehicles, repaired, or cleaned their homes and built additions as their families expanded. On the weekends family members got together to eat, celebrate, and enjoy each other.

 

The disintegration of the traditional family has radically affected our culture. Modern children are being raised by paraprofessionals, grandparents, and mostly electronic devices rather than their parents. The social mobility of modern families has made it impractical to have many get-togethers with the entire family to share their values, ideas, and practical knowledge for dealing with children. Parents are often working away or online from home. Rarely is either parent totally focused on raising their children. 

 

Modern parents are bombarded daily by parenting articles, emails, and books. Most of these publications are variations on the permissive-materialistic approach to childrearing. Parents are consistently told by the mass media about different ways to keep their children busy and entertained so the parents can handle their work responsibilities at home while trying to relax.

 

Biblical knowledge developed over centuries is comprehensive and insightful advice on how to deal with a child’s character, moral, and spiritual development.  It focuses on many responsibilities parents must set the ground rules for the child to deal with the many temptations and obligations they will encounter. 

 

Parents have many obligations to perform to keep a child on the straight and narrow path. Primarily parents should model the behavior that they want their children to imitate. To accomplish this role modeling the parents need to have sufficient time to be involved with their children. During these interactions they will naturally teach spontaneous moral lessons. “It is wrong to take someone’s possessions-it is stealing. Hitting someone because you are angry is wrong.“ The warning against particular immoral and criminal actions have to be constantly emphasized to demonstrate the many ways evil can inject sinfulness into the child. In a similar manner the children witness parents being kind and uplifting to others, helping family, friends, and strangers to reach their goals. 

 

Honoring your father and mother is learned by the children’s growing understanding that it is a blessing that these two people love them. This stage allows the parents to daily demonstrate that marriage is not easy to accomplish but pays dividends especially for them and the entire family. Parents living with virtue and self-control is not easy in any society especially in the USA where evil is ascending and relentlessly attacking all virtue.   

 

When children reach the teen years, parents should alert them and show them that associates with bad reputations should be avoided so they are not influenced by them. The parent-child discussions become more abstract such as you should not take anything from someone as it puts you in the inferior position of owing them something in return. Having sexual involvement before marriage should be avoided to clearly determine the strength of the relationship. 

 

Many leaders are attempting to turn our culture upside down.  In our government schools “social consensus” indoctrination is teaching homosexuality, promiscuous living, transsexualism, and Hollywood stars as goddesses and gods to undermine living according to traditional biblical teaching. Replacing our virtuous biblical teaching with hedonism is a modern formula to gain control of people’s minds. What was considered antisocial behavior, the power elites are attempting to normalize. Virtuous biblical behavior is currently being sold as a form of “white racism” to all ethnic and racial groups. The backlash to the frontal attack on the Bible is uniting Americans, not dividing them. 

 

Parents today must choose between two different scripts. One is being propagandized in our schools, colleges, and media with the concept that decrees “white racism” is the cause of the USA’s social and political problems. This concept is easily refuted by witnessing the millions of people crossing the US border at a high risk of sexual assault by cartels, as well as dying from heat exhaustion or drowning to come to a country that is supposed to be “awful.”  The other viewpoint is the United States decay is caused by no longer following Judaic-Christian teaching that our founders used to establish our nation.

 

Permissive materialism is allowing children to get what they want and do what they want whenever they want. They are not being taught virtuous biblical lessons that take effort and dedication and involves both parents to teach the right way to live.

 

It is the parent’s choice between permissiveness and biblical lessons that will determine the future of America: dictatorship or individual freedom.

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and the latest book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.