Parenting Article Lifestyle Wars: When your child's other home is leading them away from Christ (370 hits)
By Ron L. Deal
"I really want my two children to love the Lord, but when they spend time with their dad and stepmom, they are exposed to a lifestyle that goes against what the Bible teaches.What can we do? I'm tempted to discourage them from going to see their dad."
One challenge of faith training has always been how to minimize the world's influence upon our children. Sometimes, however, the "world" is another parent or household. This presents some very difficult challenges to faith training since children internalize each parent and their values. It's one thing to say, "don't listen to the world"; it's another to say, "don't listen to your dad."
