Childhood Memories And Children Today.

  I have so many wonderful memories of my childhood.  One of my fondest memories is the smell of freshly cut grass.  I can remember on the weekends and sometimes during the week  my Dad would break out the lawnmower and go to work.  I would be running through the yard bare foot and my heart would be so content and full of joy.  Mom would be sitting on the screened in porch laughing because I  kept getting  in Dads way.  He never minded he would just laugh it off and he seemed to enjoy seeing me having so much fun and enjoying myself.

  I notice these days when I'm out I don't see many kids out playing or Mom's and Dad's sitting on porches enjoying the day and being with their children.  What I see  is parents working long hours and kids being home by themselves  playing video games or talking on their cell phones.  Each day when I would arrive home from school my Mom was always home.  As I would be doing my home work she would be cooking our family dinner.  We would always sit down to eat together.  Grant you this was back in the 70's and times do change but family and how we spend our time should not.  Today parents are usually struggling to make ends meet and by the end of their work day they are ready to call it quits.  Stopping for fast food getting home to shower do some laundry  and head of to bed.  How is this affecting our children?  I think if you watch any news station it's plain to see.  A lot of parents today are so busy with work, paying bills, and keeping their families head above water.  Some parents  don't  know what is going on with their child in school. They are not up to date on grades, and homework, or teachers notes that may be sent home. 

 What happen to the days when children played outside and Mom and Dad were right beside them?  What happend to the days when family watched good wholesome family programs (if not on T.V  rented ones)?   What happend to the days when family sat down for dinner together to enjoy each other and to talk about their day?  I'm sure this  happens  in some homes but from what I'm hearing from other's it's a very select few.  Our days  clicks by and the days, the  weeks, and months, and years are over before we realize it and so do the ages of our children.  They grow up so fast.  I see so many parents nurturing and caring for their children when they are born and in their early years of life, but I also see as they grow older parents get buiser and buiser so that their children are alone more of the time than they are with their parents and family.

  My prayer is that we all will realize what is important.  Our jobs we have to have.  Many of us have to work and or need to work but work and  things that consume us as parents trying to raise our children should never take the place of family time and really being there for our kids.  We have them for only a very short time, and what they see at home and how they are treated at home will affect them all through their adult lives, and who will take the fault for that.

Children are an heritage from the Lord ( Psalm 127:3)

Children's children are the crown of old men and the glory of children are their fathers (Proverbs 17:6)

I have no greater joy than to know that my children are walking in truth (3rd John 4)