How Does Correcting a Child's Behavior Affect Self-esteem?

What is accountability and how does it rank in importance to the development of character and self-esteem? Parents want their children to have adequate self-esteem so they will be able to achieve to the level of their intellectual and social capabilities.

Critical to being accountable is acquiring emotional and social maturity appropriate to each stage of development. Listen to Proverbs 22:6: “Teach children how to live, to do what is right and good in all situations, and it will be their model for life.” 

Some parents mistakenly believe correcting children’s behavior and mistakes will damage their self-esteem. However failure to correct them will send children into the world ill-prepared for success. The world will not coddle a person who refuses to comply with society’s rules for living. 

It’s imperative to teach your children God’s way for living as they can grasp it’s meaning and purpose. Then be their role model. 

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For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous shall live by faith.”

~Romans 1:17 New International Version

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Do Words Have Power to Determine Your Destiny?

What you say and how you act are important for those who practice maturity and good judgment in all of life’s situations. Accountability means to assume responsibility for every word spoken, for every deed and how these influence others.

 Accountability is an awesome word, for it points directly to character, integrity and honesty. Recently at the grocery store, the customer in front of me was incorrectly given ten dollars too much change.

The customer immediately returned the money to the young store employee, who was dismayed by the customer’s integrity and honesty. Romans 14:11-12 speaks to the issue of accountability: “‘As surely as I am the living God,’ says the Lord, ‘everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.’ Every one of us then will have to give an account to God.” The words we speak and how we act determine our destiny. That’s something to think about and then make needed changes.  

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…From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. ~Luke 12:48b New International Version

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