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Faith-based parenting In our turbulent culture, parents must learn to take the time and expend the energy to develop faith-based parenting. This may be the single most important choice parents can make to help their children and adolescents learn the core skills of holiness, virtue, conscience, and character development. As Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Council states "deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, tells him inwardly at the right moment: do this, shun that," (art. 16).
Parents often feel they do not possess the skills necessary to teach their children and adolescents the concepts of holiness, virtue, conscience, and character. This may be partially due to not learning these concepts themselves in their childhood and adolescence, or to mistakes they made during their young adulthood. As Lumen Gentium (11) explains, these core concepts are the responsibility of parents to convey to their children and adolescents. The world we are living in today is so pervasive and insidious (persistent and sneaky) that it creeps up on our children and adolescents with almost no warning, until it's too late. Do not let that be the case with your children and adolescents. Take the active step today to teach the core concepts of conscience, virtue, holiness, and character to your children and to develop faith-based parenting.
Catholic, Christian Marriage provides the foundation of a healthy, well-functioning family. Again Gaudium et Spes provides guidance for us, as it states "authentic married love is caught up into divine love and is directed and enriched by the redemptive power of Christ and the salvific action of the Church, with the results that the spouses are effectively led to God and are helped and strengthened in their lofty role as fathers and mothers," (art. 48).
YOU are the primary educator of holiness, virtue, conscience, and character for your children and adolescents and you will do this most effectively through the example you set. Your teaching will be important, and the way you live and provide a good example of the concepts you teach, will offer the lasting lessons we want our children and adolescents to carry with them throughout their lives.
YOU are your child's and adolescents' most important moral teacher. Please do not leave this critical responsibility to chance, or worse, to a culture that is trying to do all it can to influence your child or adolescent to follow its ways rather than your ways. Spend time with your child or adolescent and guide them in the way they are to go.
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