Parenting with Confidence and Hope
May 8, 2025

05-11-25
Tim Wiebe
Deuteronomy 6:4-9

4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Psalm 127:4

How do we raise kids in a world that looks so different and is changing so quickly?

“New technologies have reshaped social interaction and leisure time, value systems have shifted from rigid rules and strict social roles to individual expression and an embrace of diversity, and the milestones of adolescence and adulthood are now reached much later than they were seventy years ago…. The breakneck speed of cultural change means that growing up today is a completely different experience from growing up in the 1950s or the 1980s — or even the 2000s. These changes have an impact: The era when you were born has a substantial influence on your behaviors, attitudes, values, and personality traits. In fact, when you were born has a larger effect on your personality and attitudes than the family who raised you does.” — Jean Twenge

• The bottom line PRIORITY for parenting (and for all of us)
• Key PRACTICES

The bottom line PRIORITY for parenting (and for all of us)

4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5

Key PRACTICES

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:6-9

KEY PRACTICES

• Start with yourself

• Impress the value of loving God on your kids

WISE PRINCIPLES

• Chess, not checkers

• A marathon, not a sprint

• Cultivate, not control