Stay-at-Home Parent" Investing in the Character of Future Generations Information

Parents Should Grow Intellectually & Morally—Cultivate your minds & keep your hearts pure... improve every means within your reach for intellectual and moral improvement...that you may improve the minds of your children...be constant learners in the school of Christ. You need freshness & power, that with the simplicity of Christ you may teach the younger members of God's family the knowledge of His will. #ChildGuidance , page 72. Children Will Imitate Parents — Fathers & mothers, you are teachers; your children are the pupils. Your tones of voice, your deportment, your spirit, are copied by your little ones. Children imitate their parents; hence great care should be taken to give them correct models. Parents who are kind & polite at home, while at the same time they are firm & decided, will see the same traits manifested in their children. If they are upright, honest, and honorable, their children will be quite likely to resemble them in these particulars. If they reverence and worship God, their children, trained in the same way, will not forget to serve Him also. #ChildGuidance , page 215. It is by the youth & children of today that the future of society is to be determined, and what these youth & children shall be, greatly depends upon the home. Parents are to watch the growing receptive mind & make everything in the home life secondary to the positive duty given to them by God—to train their children in the nurture & admonition of the Lord. #AdventistHome ,page 182. The best way to educate children to respect their father & mother is to give them the opportunity of seeing the father offering kindly attentions to the mother & the mother rendering respect to the father. It is by beholding love in their parents that children are led to obey the fifth commandment & to heed the injunction, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.” #AdventistHome , page 198