Saturday, April 24, 2010

Parenting Conundrum: Stop Asking?

Parents, when your kids ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask and ask for the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, what do you do?

Jesus tells us that audacity and persistence are values to practice in our prayer lives (Luke 11 and Luke 18). Instead of being annoyed by these qualities, He welcomes them. But parents usually don't welcome them, and we usually are annoyed when it happens. How do we translate the way God treats us into how we treat our children?

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