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Role Reversal

3. Role Reversal
Raising children teaches us to value character and service over comfort.

4. We over-value and over-protect our children to the point where they never learn from failure. Fake Praise = Confusion/Resentment

5. Overprotection is for our benefit!

6. “Our children are the mirror of our heart.” - Gary Thomas

7. God reveals the depth of your commitment to Christ by the intensity of His presence in the life of your children.

8. Role Reversal
Raising children teaches us about handling anger. Men → Frustration Women → Woundedness

9. “Learning to deal with anger is graduate level Christianity
“Learning to deal with anger is graduate level Christianity.” - Gary Thomas

10. Righteous Anger → God’s will Sinful Anger → Self expression
Parental Anger
Anger = Emotion
Righteous Anger → God’s will
Sinful Anger → Self expression

11. Tips for Dealing with Parental Anger:
Go Slow
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. - James 1:19

12. Tips for Dealing with Parental Anger:
2. Time-Limit
And don’t sin by letting anger control you. Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, - Ephesians 4:26

13. Tips for Dealing with Parental Anger:
3. Control Anger
It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. - I Corinthians 13:5

14. Tips for Dealing with Parental Anger:
4. Be Honest
Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye. – Matthew 7:5

15. “Just as God’s response to His children reveals His character, so parenting reveals our character.” - Gary Thomas