"Jesus said that we were to evaluate teachers by the kind of fruit they produced. And what better place to check than their garden at home? A man who is wrong about children will find it difficult to be right about anything else. So what we need (as I’ve said in other places) are more children with the right kind of bright in their eyes, like Jonathan after he ate the honey. But in his case, it was in spite of his father’s foolish prohibition. May God spare us from the indignity of having children who do well despite us. We want children who have that kind of bright in their eyes because they have fathers who gave them the honey in the first place." - Douglas Wilson, The Neglected Qualification
Our goal should be to provide honey for our children's hearts. Their bright should be in light of our efforts, not in spite of them.
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