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Ten Rules for Bringing Down a Child

Let him have plenty of money to spend as he likes.
Permit him to choose his companions without restraint or guidance.
Let him spend Sunday hours on the street or with companions with low ideas as to the Lord’s day.
Allow him to go out at night as he pleases and return when he gets ready.
Make no inquiry as to where and with whom he spends his leisure time.
Teach him to expect pay for all help at home and for all service to others.
Allow him to think that good manners are a good substitute for good morals.
Do not trouble to interest him in the Bible or to win him to Christ.
Let him see that you think church attendance is not important.
Never let him hear you pray, especially not for his salvation.

Ten Rules for Bringing Up a Child

Make home the brightest and most attractive place you can.
Make him responsible for helping in some daily duties at home.
Never punish in anger nor to relieve your own feelings, but only in love, and for disobedience.
Do not ridicule his ideals; talk frankly on matters in which he is interested.
Encourage him to invite friends to your home and table.
Impress upon his mind the fact that service and honesty are more important than making money.
Live Christ before him so that you will be able to talk of Christ to him.
Let him see your enjoyment and profit from Bible reading and prayer.
Set an example in faithful church attendance and interest in the work.
Be much in prayer for his salvation and spiritual growth.

“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 - Alfred Thompson

Words of Truth, October 16, 1964