The Goal of Parenting

The goal of parenting is not to raise children who are good.   The goal of parenting is to raise children who know God.   We must be wary of any parenting philosophy that assumes, however implicitly, that we hold sovereign sway in our children’s lives—as if we could rear children so perfect they are not in need of God’s grace. This is heresy of the very worst sort.   Too many parenting approaches, even…