Insight for Today's culture

In our society, teaching our children what it is to serve and protect just might be the key to them respecting the law. Do you believe that kids understand the true meaning of serve and protect? Do you feel in our society our children are being taught otherwise?

Walk A Mile In His Shoes

One way to help your kids better understand and respect the police, is to try to get them to imagine walking in a policeman’s shoes. Police exist to serve and protect us. Romans 13 talks about police not being equipped with weapons for nothing, yet posing no fear for people who do right. Fleeing, resisting, or attacking police never ends well. Our kids should realize, though police are there to serve and protect us, they still have to protect themselves before they can serve and protect us. They rarely encounter people when people aren’t at their worst. Statistically certain sectors have given police greater cause for high alert than others. Challenge your kids with how they might police more efficiently if they were cops.

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In today’s society, everyone is on edge especially with the latest activity involving police shootings across the nation. How do you teach your children to handle situations involving a police officer? Are you teaching them to respect the law instead of fearing the law?

Respect

Here are some virtually guaranteed ways not to have your kids shot by police. Though not a guarantee against a warranted arrest by a police officer, it is a virtual guarantee against being shot by one. First, teach your kids to respect and obey police even when they seem unfair or unreasonable because some low-grade officers do exist. Second, never resist arrest, submit peacefully, and let the legal process play out. Third, never flee from police, this automatically puts them on high alert and causes them to profile a non-compliant suspect as a guilty party. Teaching our kids to fear police than respecting them, can actually contribute to a family tragedy.

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In our culture today, what those are marching for, rioting for, and being arrested for, they couldn’t even tell you, because it is not for a cause but for a society that has lost sight of God and his love. How do you explain to your children what has happened in our society today when it comes to racism? Are you teaching them to fight racism with the law?

Is It Just A Dream

In light of tragedies involving police, it’s important to share with our kids that though racial injustice happens, it’s not systemic in America. But when it does happen should we deal with it with more injustice? Has that ever worked? We have a legal system.

Nobody made more headway pursuing racial justice than Dr. Martin Luther King. He marched peacefully, yet never rioted. If he got arrested, he didn’t run from or attempt to assault police. He used our legal system to improve our legal system and procure justice for all. Ultimately he united people though it cost him his life. Don’t fill your kid's beliefs that racism is still systemic to the police or to America, because it is not.

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In our society today being around parents of the same beliefs as you with children the same age as you is something that you should consider to be very important. As a parent do you talk to other parents on how they do their parenting? Do you collaborate with each other on ideas that you follow through on?

Parental Faith

As you interact with parents that have kids the same age as yours, you would be wise to routinely discuss strategies that will help both of your families kids, build and promote a biblical worldview, when our kids see other families aggressively living out the teachings of Christ, it legitimizes what you teach and how you live in your home.

In today’s pluralistic society, it’s easy for kids to think that their family is the odd family out. Especially when they are the only ones refraining from certain carnal, even sinful activities. Collaborating with other Christian families will give you and your kid's allies that will help promote the legitimately in their eyes while exhibiting a lifestyle congruent with the abundant life.

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