Great Parenting...#7

Priority 7: Perseverance

By: Dennis Rainey
Parenting is not a weekend project. We’re talking years—the rest of your life, actually.

Fortunately, adolescence does have a time limit, but we’ll never make

it if we have to see immediate results for our efforts.
Perseverance is the parenting quality that helps you keep doing all the other important things—the praying, training, and setting standards.

You will get tired. You will experience pain. The ones we are sacrificing for —our children—

will sometimes say and do things that hurt us deeply.

they do that because they are still children, and

“Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child” (Proverbs 22:15).
At times we may have to endure even a broken heart, but we must not lose hope. Galatians 6:9 tells us.

“And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.”
In thinking about the perseverance needed by parents, we smile and take heart at the pithy quote by the great English preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon: “It was by perseverance that the snail reached the ark.” There you have it,these seven big ideas can make the difference between frustration and fruit in parenting preadolescents and teenagers.

By: Dennis & Barbara Rainey