To train OUR children in the way they should go, reminds me of the time my daughter, who’s 15 today kept getting close to the electric socket, and stereo wires, in her infant years. No matter how much I told her “no“, and to “stay away“, she would crawl back to it, and repeat the same step over, and over again, as if it was some type of game she was playing.

I had to retrain her steps, not to get near it. I would say, “danger” and say “no” pick her up, and bring her to a safe space, repeatidly.

To train is to repeat the same step over, and over again, until your child gets it.

Training your child with consitant efforts, teaches your child the principle of consistancy and even models their future behaviour. 

To train is to assist and show the way by example, with words coupled with action. That is how our children learn, from example, not by force, but through repeated steps of action, and consistancy.

When my girls were little, I would continually speak a word to them, then state my stance on it. It seemed as though I wasn’t getting through to them, until they got older.

Now they teach me, and I smile, because those were seeds I was planting, which now sprung up in their lives.

Too much force, or no action can create much damage, and rebellion will form. You don’t want to force anything on your children, you want them to willingly learn, through repeated action.

When you are older and your children are older, you cannot teach them the way you could when they were younger. Rather then regretting, and wishing you could, step into action now, and train your children to walk upright, while they are still in your home.