FROM OBEDIENCE TO CONVICTION

How to Raise Children with Self-Control, Truth, and Responsibility to Do What Is Right When No One Is Watching

von Weslei Machado

146 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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What will your children do when you are no longer there to tell them what to do?A child may obey because a parent is watching. But one day, the rules on the refrigerator, the curfew, the reminders, and the daily supervision will no longer be there.Then a deeper question remains: Have they learned to choose what is right when no one is watching?In FROM OBEDIENCE TO CONVICTION, the second volume in the PARENTS WHO SHAPE series, Weslei Machado explores the next stage of Christian parenting: helping children move from external rules toward internal conviction, self-control, truth, responsibility, and maturity.Obedience matters-but obedience is the beginning, not the end.Parents are not raising children simply to behave well while they are being supervised. We are preparing them for adulthood, when they will have to face desires, temptations, responsibilities, disappointments, money, work, and difficult decisions without a parent standing beside them.In this book, you will discover how to help your children: - move from outward obedience toward genuine conviction;- understand why doing what is right matters;- develop self-control instead of being ruled by every desire;- tell the truth even when lying would be easier;- take responsibility for their choices and their role in family life;- learn to contribute instead of expecting to be constantly served;- face appropriate difficulties without having every obstacle removed;- distinguish loving protection from overprotection;- develop gratitude in a culture that constantly says, "You deserve more";- understand money, limits, work, responsibility, and contentment from a Christian perspective.Throughout the book, biblical teaching is brought into conversation with scientific research and the realities of everyday family life. Each chapter moves beyond theory to practical questions, conversations parents can have with their children, opportunities for self-examination, and prayer.This is not a book about producing perfectly obedient children.It is about something deeper.It is about shaping sons and daughters who gradually learn to govern themselves, tell the truth when truth costs something, carry responsibility, endure frustration, use money wisely, and recognize that not every desire deserves to be obeyed.Because sooner or later, every child reaches a moment when Mom and Dad cannot check.And that is when conviction matters.The goal is not merely to raise children who know the rules.It is to raise men and women who know why what is right is worth choosing-even when no one is watching.We shape them so that one day we can let them go.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175482226
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published