Monday, March 10, 2008

Between Good and Bad (2)

These days the information media is increasingly developing fast.A child comprehended various matter sorts through the television program, the film, the advertisement, the magazine, the video game, and the internet. Most of the information was contrary to our Christian values. Therefore, many parents who restricted TV channels, forbade the child to hear the certain musical kind, but also installed the internet filter, that all of them walked was good enough. Unless you could find the method to fortify your children from each form of the media and the influence from outside, sooner or later they must be faced with the centipede offered this world.

So how we could help our children to develop thinking with the moral filter? Along with this several further suggestions from the article beforehand:

Sharing Stories

Tell the inspiration from the story or your experience, the other person, but also stories in the holy scripture. Why did the person remember the story about Daniel and the lion mouth? Because of that is the story that is good about stood firm faced the pressure from the environment. And if you really want to be buried strong in the head of your child, began to tell all about your experiences, the moral failure, its consequences, how did you rise and be responsible but also matters that were done by you that could be imitated by them.

Connected with effects

Decisions that was made by children in the age young could make the very big difference. If someone had sex before married, he/she could face the consequences of the life. Moreover although we did not discuss the interest in their spiritual life, there were reasons and the consequences of the world that must be dealt with. We must help them to see the approach totally towards the life that eventually will influence not only their relations with the Lord or with us as their parents, but also had effects in many areas of life. Their moral life will influence how their identity developed, and that will affect the other person positively or negatively.

Care about the other

Sex, the violence, and improper words indeed to be the center of attention and our concern, but in the other hand, TV program like the cartoon film, that possibly did not contain one of the three matters above, but continued to teach the wrong view. The view of relativism that taught that, according to the evolution of humankind, the code of ethics will also change, made rumours as pornography and homosexuality became hazy and unclear. Very important to become sharp but also applied the moral filter whereas apart from that became main attention.

Be a good example for them

You could not tell lies to your children. Your integrity was the lesson was most valuable that could be given by you to them, because they saw and imitated you. You became the example for your child to behave correctly or not true in each matter, big and small. Your action spoke harder to them. Maybe you thought, "Why like that was difficult? I will only protect my child concerning bad and surrounded them with the Christian influence."

But that is not the choice that was given by the Lord to us. We could isolated ourself from the world, but we could also continue to face the world by means of Jesus faced the world.Only by that means your children not only will become the filter from the culture as well as the wrong value, but they will also become people who changed the life.

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