One day after school, Aaron's teacher commented to me that she had to talk to him a little bit about being a good leader - in other words, he was causing some mischief and rounding his classmates up with him in it. We have noticed this "leadership" before, especially when he is among his younger friends. Of course, our desire would be to help him to use his leadership for good, and to lead others in the right way. It has been a bit hard to explain that to a 4 year old, but we decided that memorizing I Timothy 4:12 would be a good start..... I vividly remember instances in my own childhood in which my parents used Scripture to teach me - the Word of God is powerful and effective! So with a little bribe of a trip to Target to get an airplane if he memorized it, he got it in about a week and a half.
We were so proud! Now if he can make our joy complete and put it into practice =)
"Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young. Be an example for others by what you say and do, also by your love, faith, and purity."
(I Timothy 4:12)
3 comments:
That's awesome, good parenting:)
I love it. Totally going to do this when we have kids. When Aaron gets to be a teenager make him memorize parts of Song of Solomon. HA!
That's a good one! I should give that one to Lily next. We started having her memorize verses (only 2 so far) when we realized she could sing the entire Notre Dame Fight Song but knew not one piece of Scripture. Whoops. We'll get there.... ;-)
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