Do you want your children to do well in life? Have you taught them well as they have grown up? Are you continuing to provide them advice or guidance? Are you mere providing them with data? Or are you teaching them wisdom? Are you teaching them to weigh the facts?
We begin teaching our children at a very young age. By the time they start crawling and walking, they should begin learning what good for them and what is harmful. Parents are to begin teaching them what is allowed and what is not. It is the beginning of learning discipline.
Children are curious and they are learning at a rapid rate throughout those first few years. Both their minds and their bodies are growing. They continue growing for several years physically and should continue to learn for the rest of their lives. This means each of us should continue to learn. As we learn, we pass our knowledge onto our children.
But knowledge alone does not make for good decisions nor a life lived well. For that to happen, we need wisdom. Wisdom is the ability to think through the facts and make a right judgment or decision. It includes a good sense of right and wrong, which begins being instilled at a very early age. Wisdom can be taught but often includes experience in the learning process. All of can continue to increase our wisdom by learning from the experiences of others, learning new facts, and continuing to think through them.
I pray we all decide to teach our children right from wrong. I pray we choose to teach our children think through the facts. I pray each one of us continue to learn and pursue wisdom. Teach your children right from wrong. Teach your children to think. Learn to think through the facts. Pursue wisdom.
Proverbs 4:10-11
Hear, my child, and accept my words,
that the years of your life may be many.
I have taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Marty Pressey 