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Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Should Parents Consider Their Kids the Most Important Thing in Life [One Minute Feature]

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All parents know that their lives change to some extent as soon as they have their first child. Suddenly, they have this beautiful new life to care for, love, raise, nurture, and teach.

Should Parents Consider Their Kids the Most Important Thing in Life [One Minute Feature]

But does this big life change mean that parents should suddenly change priorities and adjust what they consider the most important thing in life? Does elevating your children above God or your spouse actually benefit your kids at all?

How Kids Benefit When Parents Consider God The Most Important Thing in Life

Many parents tell me that their kids are the most important things in their lives. Am I then to assume that God and their spouse are vying for second?

My experience has been that parents who smother-love their kids—especially their teens—are very often struggling with their own deeper issues of need and co-dependence.

Should our kids really be the most important thing in our lives? Anything we put before God is an idol, and God cannot bless it. When God is number one in our lives, our ability to love our spouse and our kids becomes enhanced infinitely.

When kids see their parents put one another ahead of them, there is a security that rests within them that makes being third infinitely better than being a finite first.

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I am the Founder of Shepherd’s Hill Academy, a Christ-Centered, nature-based, therapeutic boarding school, the Host of License to Parent, and the Author of the book “The Miracles of Shepherd’s Hill:  An Extraordinary Odyssey of Divine Interventions.”  The environment at Shepherd’s Hill Academy is intentionally designed to provide a rich, discipleship-focused atmosphere that promotes physical, emotional, and spiritual health and healing to troubled teenager and their families.  Learn More

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