Parenting

Parenting is something we will all be affected by in some way or another: we will wither become parents ourselves or have been parented in the past. Parenting is not just a matter of getting our children to comply to us and our needs/wants as adults, but is rather a process for us to act on the needs of children. The needs of children can be placed into 5 categories:

1. The need for contact

2. The need of belonging

3. The need for protection

4. the need to withdraw

5. the need for challenge

As we parent, these are the areas we need to be looking at when a child acts out or seems to be "misbehaving". We have the responsibility to teach our children right verses wrong and help build their character, we are not parents to just police their good and bad behavior. We do not teach kids to behave, rather we teach them how to build character. Character can be built as we address  the apparent needs of the child. As we address those needs we won't need to chase around their behavior because as their needs are met they will naturally be happier and more willing to abide by rules of the house. 

We as parents have a sacred responsibility to parent those spirits in which our Father in heaven trusts to teach and guide His children to learn truth and build character.