Ginger Hubbard

Some people may have been listening to this and thinking, oh, man, I've just completely blown it.

It's too late.

There's no starting over now.

But you absolutely can.

Just sit your kids down, no matter how old they are, in an age-appropriate way.

Just say something like, you know, honey, I have been reading the Bible and praying

And I have not been disciplining you the way that I should.

God's word says that I'm supposed to train you to obey and to live in wisdom.

And I've been allowing you to disobey and live foolishly.

Will you forgive me for that?

So just apologize, ask forgiveness and start fresh.

You know, the Bible says that God's mercies are new every morning and great is his faithfulness.

Well, Alex, you know as well as I do that we live in a nation that defies God at every point, including child training.

And it's not that parents don't want to raise obedient, respectful kids.

I think every parent wants that.

But a lot of parents, I think, fail to achieve those results.

And I believe that reason is twofold.

One is that in an attempt to get their kids to obey, many parents have adopted faulty child training methods that fail to reach the heart.

They've kind of developed this philosophy that if they can get their children to act right, to behave, that they're raising them the right way.

But there is far more to parenting than getting our children to act right.