Unrealistic Expectations
Unrealistic expectations are nothing more than the temptation to be perfect and to expect it from others. Rather than looking at what isn’t done perfectly, focus instead on what has been accomplished.
Do you ever feel that finding all the resources you need for successful parenting is an impossible task? On any given day, a parent may need to have handy a child psychology manual, a fix-it-yourself instruction guide, a volume on basic theology, and a good book on emergency first aid!
While you may not find all of those on our website, we believe you will find the resources here to be practical, invaluable, and uplifting as you seek to shape the hearts of your children. With these tools at your side, you can begin to see the role of parenting as not only one of the most challenging experiences but also one of the most rewarding.
Unrealistic expectations are nothing more than the temptation to be perfect and to expect it from others. Rather than looking at what isn’t done perfectly, focus instead on what has been accomplished.
When attitudes need to be put in check, tough love is required. Parenting is challenging, but it’s also the most rewarding and gratifying job you’ll ever have.
Parents, you’re only human. Everyone makes mistakes. But stay at it. Your family needs you!
Do you give a person the freedom to be completely different from you? Or must we all sound, look, and respond alike?
In the process of being nurtured, children learn the quality of their parents’ love (security), the limits of their own liberty (maturity), and the characteristics of a healthy independence (purity).
Come along with Pastor Chuck Swindoll and examine the life of aged Caleb, recorded in Joshua 14:6–14, to see how God can use anyone—regardless of age—to serve His mission!
Ephesians provides six essential disciplines that reinforce healthy models of relating, necessary for a happy marriage and a happy family.
Join Pastor Chuck Swindoll as he examines the Scriptures to see what God says about family and marriage so we can learn how to respond to this cultural moment in a biblical and godly way.
No matter what kind of home you came from, it is not too late to start doing right in that all-important parent-child relationship.
To face the world with confidence, children need security, faith, and courage. Security comes from knowing the truth. Faith is strengthened when we believe the truth. And courage is the result of acting on the truth.