Dear Parent: What EVERY Teacher Wants to Say to YOU but Won't

Dear Student Parent
Your Children Do Reflect You
Look in the Mirror

What Does Your Child's Behavior, Speech, and Actions Say About You, Parent?
Children show teachers either what one or both of their parents are like or that their parents have set not critical boundaries by either babying them, being the "parent-friend," or letting the children be raised by unsupervised inappropriate television shows, movies, relatives, neighbors, or friends.

Walk with the wise and become wise;
associate with fools and get in trouble. Proverbs 13:20

He who walks as a companion with wise men is wise, but he who associates with self-confident fools is a fool himself and shall smart (hurt, be in pain, be troubled) for it. Proverbs 13:20

Do Children Need Parents or Friends? Do You Show Love Through Correction?
God gave children parents because they need lots of parental supervision and clear, appropriate boundaries with discipline, responsibilities, and consequences. Children have lots of friends, plenty of friends, in fact most of the time too many friends. How many friends can one really manage with church, family activities, chores, 7 or 8 subjects, homework, sports, clubs, extracurricular, and the bus ride or walk to school?

A refusal to correct is a refusal to love;
love your children by disciplining them. Proverbs 13:24

He who spares his rod [of discipline] hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines diligently and punishes him early. Proverbs 13:24

Will You Choose to Make the Commitment to Be a Great Parent?
If you are a parent, then strive to be a great parent. Decide on a positive direction for your offspring and make a plan to help them get there. Lack of planning usually results in a haphazard future for your child. Very rarely will someone else step up and take on the parenting role for your children. No parenting pain, no gain. If parenting does not inconvenience "your life" regularly, then you are probably not involved enough in your kid's lives. No plan and no goals, means no clear cut direction and spells failure for your children's future.

Be "The Parent," So Your Children Can Receive a Parent, and the Reward of Great Parenting
"Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward." Jesus in Matthew 10:41

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid. Proverbs 12:1

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child;
The rod of discipline will remove it far from him. Proverbs 22:15

Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Sources:
Proverbs 13:20 New Living Translation, BibleGateway
Proverbs 13:20 Amplified, BibleGateway
Proverbs 13:24 Message, BibleGateway
Proverbs 13:24 Amplified, BibleGateway
Matthew 10:41 New International Version, BibleGateway
Proverbs 12:1 New International Version, Bible Gateway
Proverbs 22 New American Standard Bible, Bible Gateway
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