Pandemic Parenting

01/11/2020 42 min

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3 Foundation Truths:1. Parents are the primary spiritual drivers + influencers.2. The church provides significant spiritual support3. The pursuit of a Biblical worldview is paramount for the success of bothWhat COVID hasn’t changed about Parenting (Psalm 78)1. Your calling as a parent (v. 1-6)Your calling is composed of 2 aspects:- pointing them to the ideal- Navigating them through the reality2. Your inadequacy as a parent (v. 7)3. Your need for a tribe (v. 8)When God set his people Israel in order, he placed each individual within a family, each family within a tribe, and in each tribe within a nation. No generation was excluded, no child left out, no older person put aside. Within each tribe were the components of family; they were community.—Daphne KirkWhat has COVID changed about Parenting?The environment, ie. “eco-system”An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.—National Geographica. Micro-system: family, school, churchb. Meso-system: when micro-systems interactc. Macro-system: overarching cultural contextEco-system conditions parents need to create1. Grace and Truth2. Good, Bad and Ugly3. Show and TellIts never too late: God’s grace is always available