Is Parenting More of a Job or a Privilege?

A parent’s intuition can be a tremendous asset in knowing how to parent a child. Intuition is discernment, understanding, and insight, which depends on a special bond that’s formed at conception. Getting to know your child and forming a lasting bond is an ongoing labor of love.

Bonding is an emotional, mental, and spiritual union between a parent and child that’s anchored in love and gratitude. You have been entrusted by God with the life of a child to nurture, guide, and protect. Bonding begins at the moment of conception in a literal sense.

Positive bonding requires a positive attitude which paves the way for love and affection to be continually expressed for a lifetime. Intuition does not mean that you can know everything about a child, for God has not given that power to anyone. Parenting is more than a job – it’s a relationship based on love, trust, and respect that’s essential for bonding to take place.       

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But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you, and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

~2 Timothy 3:14-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible

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What Interferes with Getting to Know Your Children?

Very few people would say parenting is an easy task. There are strategies that make parenting less stressful, such as creating a more relaxed atmosphere by not being so rushed physically and emotionally. Spend some fun time with children each day.

Children are extremely intuitive and sense distress and turmoil within the parents.

Someone noted that children are experts in intuition. Although they may not have the language or confidence to verbally state what they sense, they will display it behaviorally and emotionally.

Taking time to relax with your children or grandchildren should be a priority. Reduce the noise and distractions that interfere with getting to know and understand your child. Soft music and voices create a relaxed atmosphere. Consider this: “Bring up children in the way they should go” involves understanding them, which is an awesome task but a wonderful privilege. Remember they are created in God’s image.

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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness, [O Lord]. 

~Lamentations 3:22-23 Revised Standard Version

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