Get Smart – Part 4: Parenting Smart!

Smart Parenting Principle #1: Be Committed to !

Proverbs 22:6 (GW)

Train a child in the way he/she should go, and when they are old, they will not turn away from it.

Deuteronomy 6:5-7 (MSG)
Love GOD, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got! ⁶ … Get them inside of you ⁷ and then get them inside your children.

Smart Parenting Principle #2: Be Committed to !

Proverbs 14:26 (TLB)

Reverence for God gives a person deep strength; their children have a place of refuge and security.

Matthew 7:24-25 (MSG)

These words I speak to you are … foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. ²⁵ Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed (secured) to the rock.

1 Corinthians 16:13 (MSG)

… Hold tight to your convictions, give it all you’ve got, be resolute,

Smart Parenting Principle #3: Be Committed to !

Deuteronomy 32:11 (CEV)

The Lord was like an eagle teaching its young to fly, always ready to swoop down and catch them on its back.

Smart Parents release their children !

Recommended Books:

Have a New Kid/Teen by Friday – Dr. Kevin Leman

Boundaries for Kids/Boundaries for Teens – Dr. Henry Cloud

Parents Rising – Arlene Pellicane

Smart Parents must learn to release !

 Romans 5:20 (MSG)
… Sin (missing the target) didn’t, and doesn’t, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.

Romans 8:28 (NLT)

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.