Keeping Them Safe: 5 Tips for Helping Kids Grow in Maturity & Wisdom

“You can’t keep them safe, so you have to get them ready.”

My ministry partner and co-author, Lori Wildenberg, shared words of wisdom with me a number of years ago when my kids were young. She knows I would have preferred to encase my boys in bubble wrap at that time. Now, as teenagers, that’s not even an option. (Like it ever was a viable option!)

Getting kids ready means training and teaching what they need to know to make wise choices. It’s the combination of wisdom, knowledge, and experience. We want our kids to make good decisions when no one else is watching. We also want our kids to be like Jesus, growing wiser and stronger as they mature. Here are a few guidelines for assisting kids in the process.

5 tips for helping kids grow in maturity and wisdom:
• Allow children to fail while they are still living at home.
• Keep them accountable for choices.
• Following through with consequences.
• Listen more, talk less.
• Trust God. He loves our kids even more than we do.

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature,
and in favor with God and man.
Luke 2:52

This month we’ll delve into how to keep our little ones and not so little ones safe. More importantly, how do we get them ready? I’ve listed a few links below for past posts on the topic of safety.

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