How do our kids learn how to behave around the opposite sex?  How do you as a parent develop a strong relationship with your child?  The Mother-Son/Daddy-Daughter Date!

 

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;

 

A Mothers Love for Her Son

· Love is patient even when explaining the same thing for the hundredth time.

· Love is kind when family members are sick and can’t care for themselves.

· Love doesn’t want what others have or promote itself, and it teaches children to do the same.

· Your mother’s love seeks to bring honor, not dishonor to your children and spouse. You bite your tongue when you know your temper is short and forgive an unlimited number of times.

Christianity Today’s article:

Little Girls Need Their Daddy.” Billy (Graham) was away from home more than not. The article quotes Billy’s oldest daughter, Gigi, and his youngest, Ruth:

· Gigi: “It’s very difficult for me to separate who he was as a person and as a father. He belonged to the world. But I do remember crying in the bathtub, wishing I had a normal daddy.”

· Ruth: “He parented me from a distance. . . . He loved us, but he just wasn’t around.” Looking back, Ruth says, her remarrying quickly after her first divorce, against her parents’ wishes, was because “I was just so eager for someone to take care of me.”

· Gigi: “A lot of my insecurities came from the fact that he just wasn’t there.”

· Ruth: “I have a lot of insecurities and lack of self-confidence perhaps because little girls need their daddy. . . . They say your view of God is shaped by your view of your father. I guess I saw God that way — that he loved me, but that he was busy with more important things.”

 

Perhaps you would say, with Billy Graham’s daughters, with tears in your eyes, “Yes, little girls need their daddy. Little girls need a mommy’s specific love and kindness, a mommy’s way of nourishing and cherishing. And little girls need a daddy’s specific love and kindness, a daddy’s way of nourishing and cherishing.”

 

Mark 5:41:  Taking her by the hand He said to her, “Talitha cumi” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”

Little girl” (verse 41) are expressions of a tender, affectionate, even protective fatherly heart.

 

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