Douglas Wilson - Teaching Children to Love the Standard
Douglas Wilson...love this guy.
He says in parenting our role "is not to get our children to conform to the standard, but rather to get your children to love the standard & to love the standard intelligently. It's not sufficient to clamp a bunch of rules on them & have them just conform to that rather than fight you. That's not education, that's not biblical child-rearing, that's not what we're after. We want them to think it through. We want them to come to internalize the standard so that the standard becomes genuinely theirs & they can articulate it & defend it & they can teach their kids to love it."
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Teaching your kids to dismantle pop-culture:
He says in parenting our role "is not to get our children to conform to the standard, but rather to get your children to love the standard & to love the standard intelligently. It's not sufficient to clamp a bunch of rules on them & have them just conform to that rather than fight you. That's not education, that's not biblical child-rearing, that's not what we're after. We want them to think it through. We want them to come to internalize the standard so that the standard becomes genuinely theirs & they can articulate it & defend it & they can teach their kids to love it."
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Teaching your kids to dismantle pop-culture:
