Train up a Parent in the Way they should Go: Parenting Preparation for Today's Society

Gonzales, Deanna Jane

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Train up a Parent in the Way they should Go: Parenting Preparation for Today's Society

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Gonzales, Deanna Jane. Train Up a Parent In the Way They Should Go: Parenting Preparation for Today's Society. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b0db6414-52ef-4333-b0c7-536a96c6f240?q=2021.

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G. D. Jane. Train up a Parent in the Way they should Go: Parenting Preparation for Today's Society. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/b0db6414-52ef-4333-b0c7-536a96c6f240?q=2021

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This study sought to answer the research question: What factors help contribute to the pursuit of biblical parenting educational training in the lives of individuals before they become parents? The short answer? There are many factors that contribute, but our family background is one of the largest contributions. Just as Proverbs 22:6 is true: “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the opposite would be true as well: Do not train up a child, and they will depart from “it”. What is “it”? “It” equals habits of godliness, wisdom, truth, fear of the Lord, and sanctification that comes from the training received from godly parents which extends to the next generation. Our mission to train up a child would be in jeopardy of the mandate that Solomon sets forth, if we did not train up a parent in the way they should go.Training is at the heart of this research project. Because there are many individuals who are about to be parents that do not pursue biblical parenting education training before they become parents, a conscious effort to strive to bridge our past with the present and create a bright future for our children, our family, and the generations that follow is integral to the success of parenting. If the concern for strong biblical parenting education is important, believers should be as adamant in pursuing this preparation as much as they are in beginning a biblical marriage with the right steps. Biblical marriages usually begin by the couple taking the time to pursue every avenue of preparation and advice that there is available. But that does not seem to be the case for the role of parenting. There appears to be a large deficit of understanding in the value of pursuing every avenue of preparation and advice available for this vital beginning of parenting. For some reason, the need is not there. It is quite puzzling and disheartening to know that this deficit exists when there is deep importance to this job.The research examined uses a hermeneutical phenomenological approach in the form of personal and group interviews, conversations with student parents of my elementary and secondary classes, and a university essay question from my university students. It was the goal of this project to create a plan of action that can be implemented to begin the journey of parenting with our aim fully on the target moving from working through one’s family background, to the success and the health of our marriage, to the implementation of a strong family unit. Let us train up a parent in the way they should go.

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