Dear June,
How do you keep the hearts of your children when all around there is pressure to live selfishly? My children are ages 7-17.
A Concerned Father
Dear Concerned Father,
This is a question very close to my heart. My three children are all still younger than yours, but already I see the currents of culture pulling them. I don’t have a perfect answer, but I think there is a lot we, as parents, can do to help our children’s hearts grow to love truth and goodness more than self.
First it is very important to remember that all of us—parents and children alike—are in a continuous process of changing, becoming, and refining ourselves. It is perhaps obvious that children will change and grow, but we adults do as well, and we can do it more consciously. No matter what our age, we can refine ourselves—becoming more loving, kind, disciplined, and mentally free….