Parenting Puzzles or Puzzled Parents?

In parenting does it feel like you are putting together a puzzle with no picture to guide you? I think this is a great illustration of what parents go through daily and with each individual child. You do your best day after day and put together pieces. Some days you find matches and feel like you are getting somewhere then the next day you find out the pieces won't go together no matter how hard you push. So what's a parent to do? You know that in parenting you are putting together your child's life puzzle by every interaction and every act committed or omitted. Have you read the latest parenting magazines and bought the leading best seller on perfect parenting? There is alot of advice out there and many no fail parenting techniqes but which one will lead to a healthy, well adjusted (not puzzled by life) child.
Don't wring your hands together in despair. Not one parent that has ever walked the planet has been the perfect parent 100% of the time. What makes you a great parent is the unconditional love you give to your child; setting the example of God's unconditional love for us. 1 John 4:19 "We love him, because he first loved us." God's unconditional love for us gives us the ability to pass that on to our children. Now what? You ask what is the formula for getting all the pieces together and to be a successful parent?

Putting the pieces together is easier than it seems. As a Christian your main objective should be to find and follow God. As a Christian parent your main objective is to teach your children to find and follow God. If you do this all of the rest of the pieces will fall into place. If the kids are obeying God, they are obeying you and the list goes on and on. The best example you can set is to follow Jesus' advice in Matthew 22:37-38 when He was asked what the most important commandment was. "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment."

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