{"id":21955,"date":"2020-07-28T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=21955"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:57:42","slug":"your-responses-during-covid-19-will-influence-your-children-and-grandchildren-in-ways-you-might-someday-regret-and-hope-they-will-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=21955","title":{"rendered":"Your Responses During COVID-19 Will Influence Your Children and Grandchildren in Ways You Might Someday Regret and Hope They Will Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This strange time we&rsquo;re living in will likely shape many things in your children&rsquo;s life&hellip; most notably their hearts. However, it is not actually living during this pandemic that will shape them, but more importantly it&rsquo;s how <strong><em>they and you respond<\/em><\/strong> to our current situation that will do much to shape their hearts. That&rsquo;s why it&rsquo;s a great time to be a parent! You have the opportunity to use this time to dramatically impact their hearts! During this pandemic we&rsquo;re faced daily with new information, plans, and changes that we must process and that we then respond to and react to. Every gamut of life is impacted &ndash; work, leisure, relationships, ministry, family, school, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are called by God to shepherd their children &ndash; to guide them and teach them. Some of that shepherding happens during formal times of teaching, devotions, Bible reading, and talking about Sunday&rsquo;s worship service. Some of that shepherding happens in more natural ways. When the Lord gave the Law to the Israelites it was meant to help them know Him and know how to follow Him. At the same time, he commissioned parents to teach their children this law, not just in formal ways,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This strange time we\u2019re living in will likely shape many things in your children\u2019s life\u2026 most notably their hearts. However, it is not actually living during this pandemic that will shape them, but more importantly it\u2019s how they and you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-21955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-parenting","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21955"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21958,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21955\/revisions\/21958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}