Eyes are watching you. The most important part of this picture are the eyes of the child. In the picture we see lots of kids but do we see their emotions. From this picture we can see some smiling other looks without any emotions, yet they took the time to take the picture in spite of situations.
Today’s topic is about the children making up the family unit. I may not be a father but at one point was a father to those children in a special way. I was more of a spiritual father than anything.
Today the topic is about from the eyes of a child. What they see and learn in the first few years of their life can have an influence on their being.
A child’s life is important and we all grew up from a child. We all see and experience things differently. When I was born, my oldest brother was 10 years old. I will never experience things he went through but yet he will experience things that I grew up with, but for me it would be different from my eyes.
From the eyes of a child they have a sense of their environment and its surroundings. They will pick up on words and phrases quickly, therefore we have to be reminded of what we say around the house. How we talk to and about the child can play a very important part of their lives.
You call this the positive or negative influence in the child upbringing. Your position to raise up the child is to approach everything in love. Let them see how important they are. In today’s world we have twisted the meaning of the word love. We throw this word around like a baseball.
The type of home I grew up in was a whole of love and care. Most people don’t have that type of love. They are looking and searching, but because of the lack of love and being accepted the child could act up, be isolated, no friends, and a lack of parenting skills.
From the eyes of a child, there is fear at times. There is a need for being and wanting love. A child could be born into a loving and warmed environment, but things change. That warm and caring environment and end up in a negative.
Children in the first three years of life are motivated by those people around them. They have no control within a certain part of their lives. The parent had to care for the child.
In caring for the child, the child might sense the negativity of those around them. On the other hand the same was with the positivity in a child’s life. Are you reinforcing them to do better or criticizing them for their actions.
Again from the eyes of the child they look and see things differently. We need to understand these truths in helping to raise children.
So much to be said about the motivation factor within a child’s life. What you say will impact the well being of the child, both in a negative and positive way.
Train up a child in the way it should go. Make sure you don’t criticize the child in a negative way,.but if you do reinforce that with a positive action. From a child’s eyes they need to know and understand what love is and about.
Remember God is love. He cares for us and understands our needs. So do the same for the children you raise because they repeat at times, only what they have known and experienced in life.
God bless and take care from Givinhope Evangelistic Ministry with minister John Corum
Givin H.O.P.E. Ministry of Evangelism 