Your Life...Well Spent by Russ Crosson

Author:Russ Crosson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736946261
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Parental Pressure

Many times the prior generation places subtle—and in some cases not so subtle—pressure to live a certain way. I have heard of numerous situations where young mothers are encouraged by their parents to work. “After all,” the parents say, “you’ve got a good mind. How are you going to get ahead if you don’t work?” Or they might make comments such as “When are you going to get a new car (or a new house)?” or “Don’t you think the children could use some name-brand clothes?” or “Why don’t you go on vacation at that nice place on the beach?”

Often this occurs because the parents want their adult children to look a certain way. They don’t want their children in a starter home because it doesn’t reflect the right image to the parents’ friends. They’re embarrassed if their children and grandchildren are driving a ten-year-old car. A young couple needs to be aware of these motivations, and the parents of this young couple need to let them start out like they probably did.

If you are one of those parents, stop! Don’t discourage the young couple from living in the smaller home and driving the older car a little longer. Don’t make subtle comments about what you think your grandchildren need. Remember, the world they’re raising your grandchildren in has more pressures than what you may have faced. The schools, the churches, and the society at large are much more anti-God than people were even in the middle of the twentieth century. Give your children some room to raise their children as they make the necessary decisions that will instill spiritual and social capital in them. I read in a recent poll that “81 percent of the adults in this country believe that it’s tougher for children to grow up in America today than it was when they were kids.”3

James Dobson described it this way:

The environment in which children are being raised has changed dramatically in the past few years, creating new anxieties for mothers and fathers. Unspeakable dangers haunt our schools and streets that were almost unheard of a generation ago. Yesterday’s families didn’t worry much about drive-by shootings, illegal drugs, sexual molesters and kidnappers. When I was a kid in the early 1950’s, my folks were more concerned about a disease called polio than all sources of violence combined. As a 10-year-old, I moved freely around my home town. If I was a half-hour late coming home for dinner, the Dobson household was not seized by panic. But now the culture has changed! Now we worry about our kids playing in the front yard…Unfortunately, the risks to today’s children are not limited to physical threats. Parents must also worry about the culture and how it impacts the hearts and minds of their precious kids…the struggle to protect their children from the culture goes far beyond junk food and celebrities pushing sneakers. It has become a daunting task to shield the younger generation from “safe-sex” instruction in school, from

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