06 Why Kids Need a Pop - Cure for the Common Life (MP3)

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God writes the story of our kids. Is your son a dictionary of facts? An adventure novel of activity? Does your daughter gravitate to numbers like an algebra text or focus on images like a coffee-table picture book? That decision was made before the child was born. Your job is not to make the child be a book you want, but help the child be the story God has written.

Such is the teaching of Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." God has destined your child in a certain direction. Your job is to help him or her find it. As Robert Browning said: "My business is not to remake myself, but make the best of what God made." Dads, you are crucial in this endeavor.