Teach your children sex education. Many children today are sexually harassed and abused because they lack knowledge and have no good understanding of what to do; they were not properly educated in this area.

This could be because of the parents nonchalant attitude or passivity, Give them adequate information about sex, partial information leads to frustration. You are the best person to tutor your children on this, Don’t shy away from it or be confused about what to say and when to begin. Start early enough as they begin to develop before they get influenced outside the home. 

When they ask you questions about sexuality or sex, do not shun them. Take time to explain to them at the level they will understand depending on their age. The knowledge they will gain from your explanation will preserve them, This teaching should be a joint responsibility of both parents.

You must teach your children the practicality of life because it has no duplicate it cannot be replayed, se it must be well spent. You cannot eat your cake and have it at the same time. Never take them for granted. What you give to people is what you will receive in return. As you teach them, don’t stop at that, touch them, by this I mean do it with passion.

“If your children will keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children also shall sit upon your throne forever.” Psalm 132:12

The United States Department of Health and Human Services National Center for Health Statistics revealed in a 1993 Survey on Children Health, that almost 75 percent of American children living in fatherless households will experience poverty before the age of eleven, compared to only 20 percent of those raised by two parents.

Children living in homes where fathers are absent are far more likely to be expelled from or drop out of school, develop emotional or behavioral problems, commit suicide, and fall victim to child abuse or neglect. The males are also far more likely to become violent criminals, as a matter of fact; men who grew up without dads currently represent 70 percent of the prison population serving long-term sentences.

I included these statistics to make you appreciate and recognize the importance of a father and a mother in the life of any child.

If you are a father reading this, see parenting as a joint responsibility between you and your wife because to give your children the best parenting and get the best out of them begins with you.

Advocates of gender-free parenting say mothers and fathers parent differently.

They propose that mothers tend to be more verbal, to encourage personal safety and caution, whereas fathers are more physical, more challenging when it comes to achievement, independence, risk-taking, and enforcing rules governing the behavior of their children. Even though there is an element of truth in that, your presence and input in your childs life is something that cannot be substituted. It is a crucial matter that should be given a very serious attention…

This text is an extract from the book “BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES OF PARENTING” written by Mary A. Abioye.
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SEX EDUCATION