Parental Inquisition{0}
I was reading an exert from a book called Sticky Faith today and while I have not read enough to warrant a recommendation I did wish to share one thing I learned.
It was in regards to how we talk to our children about faith. It said we as parents tend to ask our children after church/sunday school/youth group/school/etc. How was youth group? What did you learn? It stated that these are good questions, we should keep asking them, but don’t expect you’ll always get good answers from those questions. The point was our children learn more about what it means to follow Christ by what we share with them than they do from the answers to those questions.
Share your answer and ask for your child’s answer to questions like this. What has God been teaching you lately? What have you struggled with lately? Why are you a follower of Christ?
It also suggest you spend time at dinner or bedtime or sometime with everyone (including parents) answering, High Low questions. What was the best and worst part of the day? Also, What mistake did you make today? (this gives you a place to remind yourself of the grace of God and for you to remind your children of the grace of God). The last question they suggest asking is, How did you see God today? This again gives us all some perspective as we go through are days. The reality is we won’t always be able to give an answer, but it will keep us looking from the right perspective.
Anyway these are things I plan to incorporate into our family life and I thought I would share.
