Category: Parenting

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn’t even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn’t so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week. That’s a mere $24.24 a day! Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the best financial advice says don’t have children if you want to be “rich.” It is just the opposite. What do you...

Barry Gilreath, Jr.             One of the wisest men to ever live once wrote, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).  But it is the training that we as parents so often struggle with.  We are so bombarded by humanistic, worldly, parenting philosophies that many Christian parents are confused about how to bring their children up in the love and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6:4).  And just as misconceptions have arisen in the denominational world concerning the Lord’s...

How tragic it is that many choose to bring children into this world, those who are “an heritage of the Lord,” and then abandon or neglected them! Concerning the importance of being like Christ, Paul said, “Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1). Whereas there are many areas of concern with respect to imitating the Lord, parenting is one of the most important. We know that our Lord did not have a wife and children, but we also know that He did direct the conduct of husbands...