“Time to get up”, mom shouts

Pulling the covers over his head Timmy murmurs, “Okay.  Just a few minutes more.” Mom enters the room and shakes Tim, “ Hurry up, shower and come down for breakfast.  You’re going to be late for school again.” Finally, thirty minutes roll by and Tim approaches the kitchen table.  It’s 8:15.  The bus has come and gone. Frantically, mom scrambles around the house, packing lunches, bringing Tim his school books, coat.  “Here you missed breakfast so eat a granola bar.  We have to go.”  She grabs the keys and whisks him off to school. 

Similar scenarios take place thousands of times each day in American households.  Parents and children are frustrated and this becomes the norm.  Happy childhood memories are lost as each day’s encounter reinforces patterns of maladjustment.  These patterns which become habits are the little seedlings for future problems at the office, marriage or on the job, which will prove difficult to change.

Think about it.  To be a doctor requires twenty years of education. Electricians, plumbers or carpenters usually complete several years of apprenticeship and training, but for the work of child rearing no formal training is usually required.  In today’s society kids are becoming fathers and mothers at very young ages with no instruction or modeling of child-rearing. Generations of kids raising kids will continually thrust our society into chaos and moral decay.  There are countless numbers of physically grown people displaying the social and emotional maladjustments of an adolescent. However, there is hope to overcome with God’s help and parental planning.   

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
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