Say 3- Innocence
I felt like I needed to spend some more time on childhood. Today I feel in my heart that I should talk about children and their innocence.
Too many times do I see kids subjected to the craziness of this life. I am totally guilty of it. Especially when it comes to watching what I say or monitoring what they see on television. Our children have this beautiful built in thing called innocence. Why are most of us so quick to break that beauty in them.
I said in my post yesterday that we should answer our children's questions when they ask them. I also said that it should be age appropriate. A 6 year old does not need to know the ins and outs of a sexual relationship when asked where babies come from.
Something I feel I lost incredibly early was innocence. I think I grew up way too fast under circumstances that were not in my hands. I believe when you hear an adult complain about not having a childhood I really believe innocence has tons to do with that.
Children are children for such a very short time. We sometimes put way too much responsibility on them. I'm not saying that they don't need to mind or have chores... I am just saying that we expect them to know too much sometimes. Really think about this before you scold your child for being immature next time. Think twice before telling them to "grow up". Our children, our babies have ALL their lives to be grown up and responsible...they have but a blink of an eye to be carefree and childlike.
Can you remember ways your parents forced you to grow up too early? Talk about when you believed childhood was over for you.
Galatians 5:22-23- But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.
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