Mothers & Sons with Guest: Rosemary Barnes | Part 3
Jun 19
Be The Role Model For Womanhood
There are many ways that we as mom can role model womanhood for our sons. We are the standard for what our sons will compare other women too. That is a huge responsibility not to be taken lightly. We role model modesty, humility, nurture, love just to name a few. The way we dress as women not only impacts what our daughters deem as appropriate but also our sons. A hard concept to wrap our heads around as moms of little boys is, we need to process the qualities we want our son to look for in a spouse and exemplify those. We need to set the goal of being a Proverbs 31 woman not only for our husbands but for the sake of our sons observation.
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Mothers & Sons with Guest: Rosemary Barnes | Part 2
Jun 18
Do What’s Right Not Easy
One of the very rewarding things about the mother/son relationship is that a mother has the privilege to be her son’s first teacher. She instills in her son his very first lessons. Like we mentioned yesterday she teaches him the word “no”. She also teaches the concept of cause and effect; he will begin to understand, when I choose to do this I earn a reward or consequence. She also can teach him the meaning of unconditional love as she separates relationship and disciple. For more on that click here.
Another valuable life lesson that a mother can instill in her son is to learn how to do things that he may not necessarily want to do but are important. For example learning how to eat vegetables, how to clean up after himself, take naps or even share with others. Being a consistent teacher is very hard work, but well worth the effort as you watch your child grow to be a responsible person!
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Mothers & Sons
with Guest: Rosemary Barnes
Mothers & Sons with Guest: Rosemary Barnes | Part 1
Jun 17
Worth The Sacrifice
The mother and son relationship has some very distinct aspects to it, which is why we are going to spend a two weeks discussing it. A mother has a very important role to play in the life of her son. There are many different types of moments through out the mother and son relationship some wonderful, some difficult and painful but all rewarding.
The beginning of the mother/son relationship is genderless bonding because she is his main caregiver. Whether she works out of the home or not, she is his main nurturer and encourager. A mother is the first to teach her son unconditional love. She is also hopefully the one who begins to instill the meaning of word “no” as well as begin to place boundaries up in his life.
The difficulty of this relationship, which we will continue to explore through the week, is the fact that one of the most important roles that a mother plays is allowing for the slow emancipation of her son. This begins at an early age where, if dad is at home he will slowly become his sons everything. A son will want to emulate everything his father does. And while this pulling away from mom is painful it is something that is necessary for her son to become the man he needs to be.
Check back through this week as we begin to dive into the mother/son relationship.
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Fathers and Sons | Part 5
Jun 14
Raise Him To Be A Godly Husband
A verse to think about as we end our week on fathers and sons.
Ephesians 6:4 And now a word to you fathers. Don’t make your children angry by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the Lord.
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Fathers and Sons | Part 4
Jun 13
Raise Him To Be A Servant Leader
Some people are born leaders but it would probably be very difficult to find someone who was a born servant leader. That takes an example of servant leadership and lots of training. Training a son to be a leader means he must first know Who to follow. A leader can’t make decisions without a template for those decisions. His father can help provide that template. Listen to today’s podcast for the areas in which a father can train his son, to raise up a servant leader.
