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By Andy and Renie Bowman

Sick and tired of trying to teach little Johnny how to be potty trained, instead of leaving a tell-tale path of stain everywhere he goes? Exhausted from the constant battle to teach your two little warrior-siblings to learn to love each other and not try to kill each other every day? Ready to just toss in the towel and let those kids just live exactly how they please, because you are too sick of it all to care anymore?

Could be, but sorry, you don’t have the right to walk away and let them live any way they choose, not just for their sake, but for the sake of the nation.

Parents, you cannot afford to get lazy, to not firmly discipline the generation after you. Whatever we parents teach them, or fail to teach them, are the only things our kids will have learned. And what they have learned about functioning in life is the only thing they can possibly pass on to their children and grandchildren to come. 

Don’t say, “That’s ridiculous, I’m not their only source of learning. They are surrounded by school-teachers, friends and (God forbid) our government programs to give them training.”

Mom and Dad, they are yours and therefore your total responsibility, not the schools or the government.

Neglected kids are going to grow up and reproduce. They will replicate what they have learned, and think it is normal and natural. And if you are a lazy parent, your kids will only know how to be lazy, uncaring, and self-serving people. You might as well teach them that they are not humans, they are pigs. 

If every parent acts like that, our country will soon have pigs running the schools, the government, and parenting families. Those pigs will teach their babies how to be pigs. And human behavior, the way God intended His created humans to behave, will be lost forever.

Think I am being ridiculous and a fear-monger? Yes, I am exaggerating purposely. 

But let me ask you: What happens if a baby is never encouraged to learn to speak? What happens when a toddler is never taught that it is wrong to hit and bite other toddlers? The answer: that behavior continues. And that is what I am saying. A few hundred years later, that standard will be all that our nation will know. Because generations pass on exactly what they have lived.

Parents and grandparents, you do not have the right to raise your kids any way you please. Yes, of course, your children are yours to love and guide and discipline. But if all of us choose to raise our kids without any morals and discipline, just because we have that right, then in just a few generations we will have grunting, rooting-in-the-mud pig leaders of our families and our good ol’ USA. It’s a scary picture. 

It’s past time to grow up, man up, and become real parents who teach their kids to be human.

Oink, oink.

The CoffeeTime Column is part of the Bowman’s ministry of preaching, writing, singing and counseling. They also stay busy with public appearances and their radio program heard on The Gospel Station Network’s twenty stations. More information on them can be found at coffeetimewithandyandrenie.com. 

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