Parenting with Grace and Truth: Leading and Loving Your Kids Like Jesus by Dan Seaborn

Author:Dan Seaborn [Seaborn, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683221579
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Jim’s insensitive response is not uncommon, but it is anything but helpful to his daughter. Although he has reason to be angry, disappointed, and even shocked by the circumstances, he lacks empathy for how she or anyone else in the family may be feeling. Self-absorbed and unwilling to give an inch in the situation, he knows experientially what it is like to be a teenager in love but refuses to acknowledge those feelings to enable the family to move forward in dealing with the predicament.

Empathy requires parents to love their children both with their heads and with their hearts. It is about a willingness to look beyond our own hurt and anger and to move into the ability to care about the other person’s pain. No, this doesn’t come naturally; it requires a concerted effort on our part to try to understand how our child might be feeling—especially in light of the fact that we ourselves were once children and teenagers. This is a time when we need to set aside our personal feelings and start to consider what we could do to move the situation forward.

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