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Look Up [One Minute Feature]

Teaching your kids the respect of the roadways, whether they are crossing the street or behind the wheel can save lives including their own.

It’s a busy world out there and most of the time drivers are in a rush from point A to point B. At what age do you start teaching your kids to cross the road? Are you teaching them the safeties of putting up the smartphones before entering the crosswalk?

Look Both Ways Twice

For ions, one thing we all learned in Driver’s Ed was that pedestrians have the right of way. My wife and I were talking the other day and even she has noticed that for the last decade or so almost nobody seems to care about walking in front of a moving 3500 lb motor vehicle without even looking up. This is whether you are on a roadway or parking lot. Right of way or not, discuss with your kids the danger, not to mention the lack of courtesy of nonchalantly walking in front of a moving vehicle without at least looking. Remember drivers are used to driving on a surface originally designed for motor vehicles, we can’t assume they are always alert. Not only is this a lesson in common sense and safety, but it’s also a lesson in character also.

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Kid Prayer [One Minute Feature]

Teaching our children to pray is one of the most important actions you can teach them.

A simple bedtime prayer, praying before school, and over our meals is how most of us were brought up. DO you remember the childhood prayer you use to pray? Did you teach it to your kids? Do you still say it?

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep

I can’t overemphasize the importance of praying for and with your kids. Kids are wired for belief in God, so it’s incompetent upon us to nurture and cultivate that intrinsic trait. There is also a sense of security that comes from a child’s faith in God that when properly nurtured does wonders for their emotional health.

There is a reason equating a healthy adult faith with the faith of a child. Praying with our kids not only helps strengthen our faith in God but it strengthens our faith in us as strong and trustworthy parents, worthy of emulating. When we pray with our kids they get to see their earthly authority figures submit to an even greater authority than their parents. An exercise in both faith and humility.

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Victim Free [One Minute Feature]

Teaching your kids to respect and obey you as a parent will help teach them the respect for law enforcement.

With everything in the media and on the internet these days about law enforcement, are you finding yourself having to explain more and more to your kids because of their questions about it? Are you teaching them that law enforcement is our friends and not our enemies?

Mental Moral [One Minute Feature]

Teaching your children to respect all human beings regardless of their skin color begins with making their spiritual lives a priority.

In today’s culture racism and bigotry are two issues that we still deal with today. Do you think that it is a spiritual issue or a mental issue? How do you think we can change this in our society?

Cry [One Minute Feature]

Often times our children will cry when they are emotionally or physically hurt, but there are times they cry for the simple fact that they can and they know they can use it.

When the pain has subsided but your child continues to cry, how do you handle telling him to stop? Do you believe that sometimes kids milk it just a little longer than they should?

COVID Part 6 [One Minute Feature]

We need to take this time to put into perspective what is going on in our society as a whole and stay focused on what is important.

This COVID pandemic has given us the chance to really talk to our kids about what is going on. What the facts are and how we need to see things clearer with our society. What issues have you discussed with your kids? Has the COVID pandemic brought out questions you were not prepared to answer from your kids?