Impart This Essential Ingredient To Your Kids To Thrive & Live Drug Free

Essential Strategy #4: The Courageous Family

Mark Rogers | Convergence

Courage! Courage is the one essential must have ingredient to build a thriving family & drug free kids in today's society. Courage is not an option! To build a thriving family & drug fee kids we cannot afford to be short on courage. Courage is an essential, a must have, a non-negotiable if we are raising children in today's world.

Courage is not an option! Doesn't that just scream? As loud as courage is screaming today it's amazing many more are not paying attention to it. Matter of fact it seems like the notion of, "I just need to be their friend" is getting the attention of a lot more parents today, and that is sad. The sentiment is, 'I feel if I just learn to talk like them, and just be cool they will like me and take my advice. They will respect what I say because they know I can relate to them. After all, we have a great relationship because we are friends'. I assure you even though this sentiment is coming from a compassionate place it is a dead end resulting in entitlement and resentment.

Breaking News: Our kids will not respect us if we try to be their friend. Our kids will resent us for trying to be their friend.

Today it might not seem so easy to find real life examples of parents being courageous. With the advent of social media it might be much easier to find bad examples of parents who are placating their children instead of parenting them. Perhaps employing the pop culture trends and fads of gentle parenting and buying into the myths of treating our children as if they are tiny humans who can think and rationalize just like adults is not a good idea. Not employing the discipline they need, and believing they will just somehow figure it all out for themselves one day is grossly shortsighted.

The truth is our children need structure and discipline to learn. The forging of character takes place in a loving environment with proper boundaries and limits. I don't know about your kids but my kids didn't need me to teach them how to do the wrong thing, how to rebel against the rules, be selfish, steal other kids toys, take more than their fair allotment of cookies, or lie about hitting their sister.

All these behaviors showed up on their own without anyone teaching them how to do them. If your kids are anything like our kids we had to teach them to share, the value of being honest, being kind, not to be jealous, or hateful, to say they are sorry and to forgive.

These were behaviors which showed up all on their own-we didn't teach our boys to hit their sister.

It takes courage today to parent our children into a conservative worldview. Today as a society we are generally a lot less trusting of the authorities and government institutions and aren't very sure whether the powers that be are going to back us parents, or are they for some reason now working against us? I have had many parents, good parents, not nut jobs or conspiracy types, but genuine good conscience rational parents wonder if they can trust what is coming into the schools being taught to their kids without their prior knowledge or consent? Unsure whether or not the messaging is slanted or biased, with contrary values being taught to thier kids.

It begs the question, 'Are the authorities seeking to remake the traditional American Family into another image'? Will the tidal-wave of the progressive's overtake us as it seeks to crash onto the shore of our lives? How do we survive the onslaught of disruption and chaos? Will we get swept out to sea as progressivism surges in our day? Or should we just brace ourselves for devastation?

No, No and No! No-way, no-how! Our prayer for every family in America today who is seeking to build thriving Traditional American Families & drug free kids find two to three sets of other parents who are seeking to do the same and rub up against each other and forge lasting relationships as we do life together. Courage will spring forth and multiply in spades as we associate with like minded people.

As iron sharpens iron so does one man another~Proverbs 27:17

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