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July 14-20Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook—2025 | July
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1. Wise Principles for Raising Children
(10 min.)
Prepare your children for life’s challenges (Pr 22:3; w20.10 27 ¶7)
Begin training them from birth (Pr 22:6; w19.12 26 ¶17-19)
Discipline them in a loving way (Pr 22:15; w06 4/1 9 ¶4)
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July 14-20Life and Ministry Meeting Workbook—2025 | July
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7. Be Patient, but Not Permissive
(15 min.) Discussion.
Raising children requires much patience. Parents must give their children regular attention and unhurried time. (De 6:6, 7) In order to know what is in their children’s hearts, parents must draw them out and then really listen to what they say. (Pr 20:5) Parents may also have to repeat their instruction many times before their children understand and apply it.
Patient parents, however, are not permissive. Jehovah has given them the authority to set boundaries and then to give needed discipline when their children disobey.—Pr 6:20; 23:13.
Read Ephesians 4:31. Then ask the audience:
Why should parents not discipline their children in anger?
Read Galatians 6:7. Then ask the audience:
Why is it important for parents to teach their children that actions have consequences?
Play the VIDEO DRAMATIZATION ‘With Patience, Put Up With One Another in Love’—Your Children. Then ask the audience:
What lessons did you learn from the video?
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