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Raising Sons and Daughters

Raising Sons and Daughters. Proverbs on Parenting. Book of Proverbs provides: Five crucial areas in raising sons Three character contrasts helpful in raising daughters. Key Questions. How can we help our sons deal with temptation? How can we help our children wisely spend money?

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Raising Sons and Daughters

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  1. Raising Sons and Daughters

  2. Proverbs on Parenting • Book of Proverbs provides: • Five crucial areas in raising sons • Three character contrasts helpful in raising daughters

  3. Key Questions • How can we help our sons deal with temptation? • How can we help our children wisely spend money? • What are the clues that our child will turn into a foolish person? • What can we do to help prevent our daughter from being a nagging wife?

  4. Five Crucial Areas • Christian Character • Authority and instruction • Temptation • Money • Hard work

  5. Christian Character • Proverbs 1:10-16 • Need to teach our children to stand alone. • Proverbs 13:20 – your son will become like the boys he plays with. • Our children must stand alone in the midst of foolish error.

  6. Christian Character • Practical suggestions: • Teach him how to choose his friends. • Teach him to say no. • Teach him the consequences of foolish behavior (Hebrews 11:25).

  7. Authority and instruction • Proverbs 3:11-12 • A father must instruct his son in how to be sensitive to the Lord’s instruction and reproof.

  8. Authority and instruction • Practical suggestions: • Teach him to listen to counsel. • Teach him to respect your authority. • Teach him to respect other’s authority.

  9. Temptation • Proverbs 5:1-5 • Sex (Proverbs 6:20-24) – teach him to resist sexual temptation. • Alcohol (Proverbs 23:19-21) – resist temptation by strong drink, drugs.

  10. Temptation • Practical suggestions: • Teach him the value of chastity. • Teach him the dangers of promiscuity. • Teach him to be temperate and self-controlled.

  11. Money • Proverbs 3:9-10 • Many of the Proverbs focus on how to earn money, give money, spend money, and save money. • Proverbs 22:7-9 – focus on money.

  12. Money • Practical suggestions: • Teach him to value money by working for it. • Teach him to manage money by giving him an allowance which he must use to pay for his expenses.

  13. Hard Work • Proverbs 10:4-5 • Children need to learn the value of hard work. • His friends will often make it seem like work is for ignorant people (Prov.13:4)

  14. Hard Work • Practical suggestions: • Teach him the benefits of hard work. • Teach him to work for special projects.

  15. Three Contrasts • Foolish or wise • Contentious or gracious • Sensuous or virtuous

  16. Foolish or wise • Proverbs 14:1 • Foolish means “dull, thick, sluggish.” • Foolish woman is thick and dull toward the things of God. • She is bent on destruction (tears down her home with her own hands).

  17. A Foolish Daughter? • First clue: Proverbs 9:13, 17 – boisterous, what she says to her friends (makes mockery of sin). • Second clue: Proverbs 14:1 – quarrelsome, bursts of rage. • Contrast with Proverbs 31.

  18. Contentious or gracious • Proverbs 19:13 • Funny and pathetic at the same time. • Contentious means “given to strife, easily angered.” • Picks a fight just for the love of nagging.

  19. A Contentious Daughter? • First: Her assertive self-will was never broken. Never learned submission. • Second: A product of a contentious mother. Life begets life. • Contrast with Proverbs 11:6.

  20. Sensuous or virtuous • Proverbs 2:16 • Strange – immoral, promiscuous. • First clue: given to verbal flattery, speaks with words that entice. • Second clue: runs with older girls. • Third clue: the way she dresses. • Contrast with Proverbs 12:4.

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