Title: Parents: Train Your Children at Home
Meta: Parents must consistently train their children at home in order for them to behave properly during a church service. Having family devotionals is an excellent time for that training to take place; as well as giving them Biblical truth which is of most importance.
Tags:  parenting,children,family devotion,kids,discipline

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Maybe before I dive in,

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just a word,

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seems like I hear,

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I understand when I hear children cry

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who are obviously infants and newborns.

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Some of the voices of children that I hear crying out

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are children who are

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old enough to be trained not to do that.

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And parents, if you notice

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families that have little children

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that are able to sit all the way through the service

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without having a tantrum,

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I will guarantee you they did not train them to do that here.

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They did that at home.

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And one of the things you want to do

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is have devotions at home

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and train your children to sit still

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and train your children not to throw tantrums.

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And train your children in that context,

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so that when you come here,

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when you give your child that certain look

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or that certain word,

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they've been trained,

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and they recognize that mom and dad are serious

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and there's a time to play, there's a time to be loud,

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and there's a time not to be.

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But that gets instilled at home.

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And when I hear children's voices

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who are at the age to be trained,

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and they are making such noises

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toward the parent that is an obvious, open, defiant cry

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of that child,

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that is the kind of thing you want to train

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and discipline out of your children at home.

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So, yes, it takes discipline as parents

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to discipline your children,

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to bring them to that place.

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It takes doing this at home.

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It takes you being consistent in having devotions at home,

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and it takes consistency in disciplining your children

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so that you get them to that place.

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Anyway, it just seems like today,

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I don't know why it's hitting my ears,

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but when you were speaking this morning...

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You know, we do encourage having the children in here,

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so we are always having a fair degree of

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background children noises,

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but it just seemed today it was extra loud.

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Anyway, I thought maybe

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that would just be a good encouragement.

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To parents, if you have little children,

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and you're not having regular family devotional times,

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that in itself is something that you want to

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give yourself to - training your children spiritually yourselves.

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But also, it's an opportunity to instill a discipline,

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a good, healthy discipline into your children.

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I'm all for having my kids wild when it's time to be wild,

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but when it's time to sit still...

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I mean, I like good, aggressive games,

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and I don't know how it is in your homes,

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but we often had lots of crazy moments.

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But the moment you as a parent say,

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"Ok, all over, shut down, we all need to be still now."

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They should all be able to do that

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without throwing a tantrum.

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Ok, well that was chasing a rabbit...

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Let's pray...