dadhodl on Nostr: With so many young kids in the house, I must demand total obedience as a daily ...

With so many young kids in the house, I must demand total obedience as a daily discipline of #dadhacks. There simply isn’t wiggle room.

With that I also give lots of patience, encouragement, and grace, pointing them #ToChristAlone along the way.

But the posture I have to take is very much the opposite of “gentle parenting” techniques that coddle children. You simply can’t scale a family that way.

And you bet when the children are orderly enough and you are loving enough, your wife will want more of them.

1 Timothy 3:4–5 (ESV)
“He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?”

It’s good to demand obedience. And good to give grace.

Hold the line, fathers.
As the Father holds the line on us.

#dadhacks