Parents are famous for starting early in teaching their kids life savings techniques; swimming for instance. Because we spent a lot of time on the lake skiing, at the age of 9 months Jeane and I started classes teaching our daughter to swim. As good parents we would never want our child to get into water over their head and not be able to swim.
As parents we would never allow our kids to get in over their head in their life. We want to train up our kids for living, and the best way to do that is to “Grow Them Up” with a strong sense of God’s presence
Here are 7 ways that I worked for us…
1. Grow them up to fear God. (Prov. 1:7)
2. Grow them up to guard their minds. (Prov. 23:7)
3. Grow them up to manage God’s money. (Prov. 3:9-10)
4. Grow them up to carefully select friends. (Prov. 13:20)
5. Grow them up to be responsible. (Prov. 6:6-8)
6. Grow them up to watch their words. (Prov. 4:24)
7. Grow them up to be generous. (Prov. 11: 25)