Preteen, tweenager, tweenie are some derivatives of tweens. The termed is coined for females mostly. This demographic has the age bracket of 9-12 years… and right now… I have a 10 year old daughter… like most girls, they like to keep diaries (I for one). Well… before I would scribble (which is more of encoding) my thoughts… lemme clarify that the circumstance was never premeditated. It just happened.
So…as I was saying, my daughter is keeping a diary, which one time she carelessly left in our bedroom. My husband was working in the computer, and saw her dairy lying on top of the cpu. Out of curiosity, he took it, not with the intention to read what’s inside but because the design, the color and the mechanical buttons drew his attention in. Now go figure! ---- If you think he was playing with the locks and opened the diary (by the way… there is no imprint that says “ D-I-A-R-Y” …my husband found his excuse @.@ ) … YUP! Lo and Behold, t’was already too late when he realized that he cracked the code and opened that forbidden notebook. I wonder if he would open it if the notebook has a print that says “READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!” … because what he discovered in that diary really balled him over. My husband found out that his daughter begins to admire boys at her age… I think that thought gave him a headache… prolly someone gave him a left hook.
Things such as those are expected… kids grow. You can never stop it. It is just a matter of guiding the children. What are parents for?
So how would you deal with that? You see, we are practicing Christians. As parents, my husband and I desire for our kids to follow Christian courtship. Have you read the book “I Kiss Dating Goodbye?” by Joshua Harris? We want our kids to practice that by heart. It is hard to just preach to the kids and bombard them with set of rules and the WHAT-NOT-TO-DO LIST. That will not simply work. Right now, the best thing to do is to safeguard them in our prayers… train them to righteousness while we still can. We have weekly bible study at home. My husband leads the kids… One thing I see that is very crucial is not to scold them when issues like these come. These are real situations, and should not be considered as a taboo subject. Kids should know that they can confidently come to us and share to us their thoughts, their struggles, and their frustrations.
If I can only program the life of my kids, I would. But like how God created us… He gave us the freewill… One day…my kids will exercise that God-given gift. But when they are being taught to love God… and when they know that loving God is to live a life that will bring honor and glory to God… then they will surely do that. My kids are very expressive with their love towards us. My kids are not perfect… but they will surely follow God.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." ~ Proverbs 22:6
So…as I was saying, my daughter is keeping a diary, which one time she carelessly left in our bedroom. My husband was working in the computer, and saw her dairy lying on top of the cpu. Out of curiosity, he took it, not with the intention to read what’s inside but because the design, the color and the mechanical buttons drew his attention in. Now go figure! ---- If you think he was playing with the locks and opened the diary (by the way… there is no imprint that says “ D-I-A-R-Y” …my husband found his excuse @.@ ) … YUP! Lo and Behold, t’was already too late when he realized that he cracked the code and opened that forbidden notebook. I wonder if he would open it if the notebook has a print that says “READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!” … because what he discovered in that diary really balled him over. My husband found out that his daughter begins to admire boys at her age… I think that thought gave him a headache… prolly someone gave him a left hook.
Things such as those are expected… kids grow. You can never stop it. It is just a matter of guiding the children. What are parents for?
So how would you deal with that? You see, we are practicing Christians. As parents, my husband and I desire for our kids to follow Christian courtship. Have you read the book “I Kiss Dating Goodbye?” by Joshua Harris? We want our kids to practice that by heart. It is hard to just preach to the kids and bombard them with set of rules and the WHAT-NOT-TO-DO LIST. That will not simply work. Right now, the best thing to do is to safeguard them in our prayers… train them to righteousness while we still can. We have weekly bible study at home. My husband leads the kids… One thing I see that is very crucial is not to scold them when issues like these come. These are real situations, and should not be considered as a taboo subject. Kids should know that they can confidently come to us and share to us their thoughts, their struggles, and their frustrations.If I can only program the life of my kids, I would. But like how God created us… He gave us the freewill… One day…my kids will exercise that God-given gift. But when they are being taught to love God… and when they know that loving God is to live a life that will bring honor and glory to God… then they will surely do that. My kids are very expressive with their love towards us. My kids are not perfect… but they will surely follow God.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." ~ Proverbs 22:6
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