Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

My days have been busy, but I’ve been truly blessed, and learned a lot along the way.

Some of the things that I’m thankful for are the sessions I had with these professors, doctors and pastors, whom I interviewed for Reformed 21 TV 🎥

So grateful that amidst their busy schedules, there’s time to share their thoughts with us.

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There are too many to share, but here are some thoughts I’ve jotted down for you =)

❤️ Too often, we see higher education (eg. University) as simply preparing our children / ourselves for the working world.

We forget how it is equally important (if not more) to prepare students for the world, to shape the hearts and minds, to face changes and challenges, to bring good and peace.

It’s not only about acquiring skills, it is also about building the ‘person’, as we are all created in the image of God.

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❤️ Parents, are you unconsciously pushing own personal agenda?

‘Go and get a business degree so you can continue my business later’, ‘Go and be a doctor. It is something that I’ve always wanted to be but never got to do.’

Is what your child wants to do/to be in sync with what God plans for him?

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❤️ Christian education must FIRST take place at HOME, before it takes place at church and at school.

Fathers and mothers MUST make time for their children.

Too many say they’re busy working in order to provide a ‘better’ life for the children.

Lower your expectations. Lower your ‘standard’ of living so that you can be with your children.

It is the parents’ responsibility to teach God’s Law to children at home. Open the Bible together, sing, read, discuss, grow together, and share with them the values.

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❤️ We need to look within ourselves and see if we have been committing the sin of ‘envy’.

Those who are envious find it hard to also be happy when others are happy.

They usually do not envy celebrities (eg. You know you can’t be the Queen of England, so you don’t envy her), but they usually envy their neighbours, their colleagues, or their siblings, ie. People who are ‘closer’ to them.

They can belittle other people’s achievements (because in their heart, they feel they CAN do better).

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For more programmes and interviews on various topics, they are accessible from this link: http://www.reformed21.tv

May it be a blessing!