Inspire Your Kids to Greatness: How Parents Can Nurture Gods Next Generation?

As parents, we have always spurred our children from the very beginning to the morals and virtues like benediction, compassion, justice, faith, hope and many more. We always take it as our job, inspiring and encouraging our children to overcome all barriers, and to go after and work hard looking after their needs, their activities, if or not they are going out of their drawn boundaries. But according to Jerry Johnston  the renowned author and a gifted communicator with a passion for teens “The teenage years do not have to be so hard for parents”! 

 

Experience The Joy That Comes From Being Teenager’s Parents: Dr. Johnston

  

  While acknowledging that though adolescence can be challenging for parents and teenagers alike, but “Adolescence is not a period of being ‘crazy’ or ‘immature.’ It is a crucial and most joyous time of emotional intensity, social engagement, and creativity.”  Jerry Johnston wants you to experience the joy that comes from being your teenager’s best friend. 

While they are teenagers, your children can develop a more meaningful friendship with you. And perhaps their adolescence is the only rewarding time of building close relationships that are supported on the footings of emotional bond. This emotional bond eases the liberty and gives your child inner strength to discuss even the disastrous or embarrassing situation of his life and get it sorted. 

Dr. Jerry understands the special challenges parents of teens face and he has developed proven strategies for overcoming those challenges.  He has covered all the topics in detail in his book:  “Inspire Your Kids to Greatness”. 

“Never, never give up on any child!” – urges the book by Dr. Johnston 

The book has done good justice to bridge the generation gap between the child and parents. Jerry being a renowned pastor, has particularly focused and researched homes, where parents and children face a problem of Generation gap  and many parents tend to have ideas which their children call archaic while their children have ideas which the parents think are weird. Dr. Jerry has done deep down study on how do we communicate with these children? And he has approached this issue from both sides in a condensed manner and has steeply arrived at an acceptable compromise. 

 

Johnston has outlined strategies any parent can take to build (or rebuild) a positive relationship with his or her teenager.  He sets forth an 'equation for greatness' that will help parents instill foundational beliefs and values into their teenage children. He has framed guidelines on how to motivate children to be competitive.  It also touches the solid grounds of how to overcome perceived or even real deficiencies in the child as well as in the parent. It is a must read book for the parents seeking to instill foundational beliefs and values into their teenage children.

How to Imitate Jesus or Follow “Teachings of Christ” while Showing Love for Your Teenager?  

There is a stress on upholding family traditions and values as a way to battle cultural influences including but not limited to pop trends, unwholesome sex–crazed culture, the homosexual revolution and the declining Christian culture in the national lifestyle.

CHRISTIAN parents have few joys like that of watching their children get baptized. What role do you as a parent play during those crucial years? Consider how Jesus, after he grew into adulthood, manifested love, humility, and insight. How can these qualities help you to train your teenager to serve Jehovah? (Read Luke 2:52.)

 How to Be a Great Parent?

• Pay Attention To What Your Child Loves: Follow your child’s bliss. Look towards the stuff that interests your child most.

• Expect Good Things, but Don’t Go Too Far: It’s good to letting your child know your expectations in terms of activities or any other good thing. But applying pressure and showing anger when those activities don’t work is not at all a good way. Celebrate over your child’s efforts toward something, rather than only rewarding a perfect result.

• Give Them The Opportunity:  Allow your child to try their hands on all kinds of sports, classes and extra-curricular activities that they’re interested in, and motivate them to also try new things that they may not have thought about previously.  Doing so will surely allow them to find the things that they truly love to do and will open their mind to their endless possibilities that are within their reach. Try not to make mistake of bombarding your child with too many activities all at once as this may become an overwhelming situation for them and as a result they may move under depression.

• Understand the Power of Praise and Support: You may not like the entire situation or all of the circumstances, your child chooses to do but your praise, and support and recognition are powerful elements that are extremely beneficial to your child. 

As you raise your children, you may sometimes feel as did the apostle Paul, who became a spiritual father to many. He experienced “tribulation and anguish of heart” because of “the depth of love” he had for his spiritual children in Corinth.

(2 Cor. 2:4;1 Cor. 4:15) Victor, who raised two sons and a daughter, says: “The teenage years were not easy. Yet, the good times outweighed the challenges we faced. With Jehovah’s help, we enjoyed a close friendship with our children.”

“Keep working tirelessly to train your children to the height of greatness. No greater joy do I have than this: that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth” —3 John 4.