I am now working on a devotional project for my son. He is 10 years old and the adolescent age of being stubborn has begun. I don’t want to be harsh either on myself or him. How then do I be a good dad?
I’ve got to value him the same way I value myself. If he wants to rebel against me, I don’t want to pounce on him and start wearing the best dad hat and working it out. I would need something else. Something profound that can help him to build-up effectively and efficiently. I am a devout Christian and would like him to learn Christian values from a young age. I don’t want to force him to get religious, but neither would I want to ignore anything on what my belief systems are. And therefore, I have started to work on a new project blending with my writing goal. Here it is:
- Make a one-year devotional diary (2020) for him to go through them every day.
- Each page will consist of 250 to 300 words.
- He will need to spend an average of five minutes each day, this will include him reading, meditating, and praying.
- Taking Scripture from Matthew chapters 5-7
- Use five different commentaries (Craig S.Keener, Charles Talbert, Leo Zanchettin, St. Jerome, Thomas C, Long) and some books (Cost of Discipleship-Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Sermon on the Mount-D.A. Carson)
- This is also called “The Sermon on the Mount”
This is a painful journey as I need to study the commentaries, read and re-read the Scriptures, refer other books, write it in a way to make it easy for him to understand, make it valuable for him to learn, and make it fun for him to continue.
If you are a dad or mom, what strategy do you use to build up your child?
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