Comments on: Your Kids Won’t Become Something Your Not http://www.cloften.com/?p=1347 He'd rather be funny than good! Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:05:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cloften http://www.cloften.com/?p=1347&cpage=1#comment-828 cloften Fri, 06 May 2011 17:22:22 +0000 http://www.cloften.com/?p=1347#comment-828 "However, they will not have better character" A classic Cloften overstatement. You could build an entire website just on those. I knew it was an overstatement when I wrote it. I considered restating but left it. How about this: They will only have better character in spite of you, not because of you. There is definitely another blog post out there called, You Can Break the Cycle. It is absolutely possible to break the cycle, because of God's influence and a different example to look to. There are lots of great examples out there. However, there are parents out there that think that through the use of discipline, they can make their kids not struggle with the same sins they currently struggle with, or are completely oblivious to the correlation, as an example, between the fighting between them and the anger issues of their kids. “However, they will not have better character” A classic Cloften overstatement. You could build an entire website just on those. I knew it was an overstatement when I wrote it. I considered restating but left it. How about this: They will only have better character in spite of you, not because of you.

There is definitely another blog post out there called, You Can Break the Cycle. It is absolutely possible to break the cycle, because of God’s influence and a different example to look to. There are lots of great examples out there. However, there are parents out there that think that through the use of discipline, they can make their kids not struggle with the same sins they currently struggle with, or are completely oblivious to the correlation, as an example, between the fighting between them and the anger issues of their kids.

]]> By: Josh http://www.cloften.com/?p=1347&cpage=1#comment-827 Josh Fri, 06 May 2011 15:04:39 +0000 http://www.cloften.com/?p=1347#comment-827 I totally agree that we set the example for our kids and they will imitate us so we have to be on our best behavior and set a good example. But,I am not sure about "However, they will not have better character." There are probably tons of examples out there of kids who had better character than their parents. What if the kid recognizes that the parent has crappy character, and it is not how they want to be, so they decide to be different. I totally agree that we set the example for our kids and they will imitate us so we have to be on our best behavior and set a good example. But,I am not sure about “However, they will not have better character.” There are probably tons of examples out there of kids who had better character than their parents. What if the kid recognizes that the parent has crappy character, and it is not how they want to be, so they decide to be different.

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