CROSSTALK

Last night our family made a trip to K-Mart to get a few items adn my boys first pocket knives! Well after making our rounds through the toys, sporting goods, automotive, video, adn finally chasing mom and sister throught the clothes department, the boys adn myself ended up looking at clearance racks in clothing. As I was looking at some pants on a box rack, I hear Josiah, my oldest at 7 years old, sounding out words. And in the back of my mind I am so proud because he is very smart and loves to read, to bad the next thing I hear is ” Daddy, what does f*** y** mean?” AHHHHHHH, was all that went through my mind as I looked at him and said, ” Where did you hear that?” Well he did not hear it, he read it inside of the clothes rack! Someone took the liberty of sharing their very small adn ignorant vocabulary skills in the line of my child sight. So not at all mad at him, he had no clue, he was only practicing what he was taught in reading class, he felt horrible.

 I guess my thought is now we shoulddo more preparing than sheltering. Do not get me wrong sheltering is good, but we can’t do it forever. Josiah had no clue what the word is or even meant, and though we have parental filters, blockers, eyes in the back of our head and interview all creatures who come in contact with our kids, sin will creep in somewhere, so we have to equip them to fight it and recognize it. So I challenge anyone with children please feed them scripture morning and night and teach them to pray. They have no other defense or solid foundation outside of the two.

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