| Share on Facebook  Cartoonology. There is great theology in cartoons and comics. Unfortunately, what many of our children consider entertainment these days is anything but. It is full of bad influence, bad language, sexual material, and violence. Parents must be very much on the alert as to what their children are playing with, watching, listening to and reading, and they must know who they are doing it with. The Internet and computers have made it worse than ever. No child should have a computer in his or her bedroom hooked up to the Internet, and when he or she uses the Internet, it should be monitored. There are just too many thugs out there preying on our children. Parents must take the initiative to police what their children are doing. Liberal thinking today considers this a violation of children’s rights and privacy, but minors have limited rights and privacy in the home and family. It is the parent’s responsibility to make sure they are not being exposed to the wrong things. If that necessitates snooping around in their bedroom and belongings, so be it. I would rather my child be angry with me for a while than to see that child dead from drugs. One mistake parents make is trying to be their child’s friend. Parents are not friends to their children. They are parents. Children do not have the ability to make many decisions for themselves. Of course, that ability grows with maturity, but in the process, it is the parent’s role to guide their children (Ephesians 6:4). Another error many parents make is failure to model for their children. It is ludicrous to punish a child for behavior that you are indulging in yourself. It is hypocrisy of the highest order, and children see it that way. Stupid is one thing our children are not. Over the years, I have had teenagers ask whether or not they should engage in certain behavior and activities. Often it has centered on music or movies. My answer has always been the same. I quote 1 Corinthians 10:31 from the Bible. 1 Corinthians 10:31 (NKJV)
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. This scripture gives a good guiding principle for our children to live by. By the way, it is also good for us adults. If we were to gauge our activities by this verse every day, we just might have to cut out a lot of things we are currently engaged in. The question is whether or not we are willing to do just that or to sacrifice our children to the god of this world. 04-17-09 edrynn@verizon.net
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