*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary: Why do we want to teach our children to pray for their teachers? Are the choices of our children important? What does it mean that you teach a child when they are young and they will not depart from it? Show Notes: • How do we help children conquer their fears? • A child can be an example to others • The brain cannot relate to what “do” and “do not” means References: 1 Timothy 2:1, 2  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Deuteronomy 6:7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Ezra 3:11-13  And they knelt in thanksgiving and with hymns to LORD JEHOVAH, “Because he is good and his grace over Israel is for eternity!”, and all the people shouted with great jubilation with hymns of praise to LORD JEHOVAH, because of the completion of the house of LORD JEHOVAH. And many of the Priests and the Levites, Chiefs of the elder fathers, because they saw this house in its first glory when this house was finished, they wept with a loud voice, and there were many who were lifting up their voice with the horns and with joy. And there were no people who heard the sound of the horns, because of the sound of the great weeping of the people, because the people were sounding with the horns with a loud voice, and the sound of the weeping was heard for a long distance. Quotes: • It is simple living everyday life with your children • Teach them: This is the way to do it. • Learn who they are • We need to teach them humor Take Away: A child begins to learn as a baby and continue to learn, we are to “bring them up in the way they should go”, teach them to know how to be an overcomer.

Debbie

Teach the little ones how to do it. Very simply, just ask the Lord to help you. You can tell them, you know what? Let's pray for your teacher. You have a hard time with your teacher. Let's pray for your teacher. You have trouble with your friend. Let's bless them. So simply, (Sandy: yeah) you could teach a child how to overcome.

Pray for the kids around them. Someone does something to you that you didn't like, help them to understand. You can bless him. You can help them, (Sandy: right).

Laurie

It's just simple living everyday life with your children. (Deb: right)

Dale

I think that word children, you could say up to age 14, 15 years old. Teaching them, they have choices. Teaching them why, so they can understand making a certain choice. (Deb: Yeah) They're making choices, even though these are choices of a child, they're still choices that they live with. Those choices and what their problems are, are just as serious as your problems. You can't discount or say, oh that's just something the child goes through. And what you want to do is; you want to explain to them; explaining till they understand. (Deb: right) Just like praying for their teacher. Why are you praying for your teacher? Why your father and mother? Why pray for anybody?

Ron

You know, as we teach them, you have a choice in every situation. Now this choice, will this choice make you an overcomer? No, well, what about this choice? Yeah. So, which one is better? And so, we're trying to teach our children to become overcomers. And if we teach them as children that principle, my goodness.

Deb

That relationship you have to develop your relationship. You have to learn who they are and listen to who they are.

Ed

You got a brother and sister and they're sitting there arguing and yelling at each other and, instead of stopping it, you know, they, they just go off somewhere else. When they should be there, giving them an alternative to the anger and the hatred that they're exhibiting. You know, they love their sister, they love their brother, but right then and there, they're outta control. And to help them get back into control and help them to say, hey, there's got to be a different way for you to react because this isn't right. You know, you love your sister, you know you love your brother, you needed a different way to get over the problem.

Deb

If a child is not behaving, not listening, not doing what you ask them to do. Try and stop and, and say, what do you want to do? What's in your heart? What, what are you thinking about? Take time to talk and relate to your child and enjoy them. Develop that relationship with your child.

Ed

Each kid is different. The one thing that you can do if you're willing to, is just be there and relate with the kid and try to give him an alternative to whatever he's feeling that's not right. Give him a, give him an option of how to take care of it. But you can't do that if all you're doing is coming home and you're not paying attention to your kids and you're letting somebody else on TV take care of your kid.

Dale

We need to teach our children as small as we can. How to laugh? Absolutely. We need to teach them humor. And you do it with responsibility and you do it with love, understanding explanation to teach them how to laugh. If you ask some of the great comedians, they came from very difficult backgrounds. As little children, they learned how to overcome it with humor. Have fun, put humor in it anywhere you can, and the kids will grow up to be happy.

Debbie

And they'll grow up as overcomers.