{"id":158,"date":"2005-11-16T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/releasing-your-kids\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T00:34:16","slug":"releasing-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/16\/releasing-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Releasing your kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familylife.com\">Family Life <\/a> radio program is doing a week of programs on &#8220;After the Kids Grow Up.&#8221; The first day&#8217;s topic is &#8220;Releasing your child to adulthood.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Dennis Rainey, the host, says, &#8220;Know what adulthood is. You&#8217;re raising your children to become independently dependent upon Jesus Christ. If we&#8217;re not passing on a faith to our children where they learn to dependent upon Him for the issues of life that they&#8217;re going to face, then they&#8217;re going to miss life. If you miss life spiritually, you may end up gaining material success, but you know what? If you miss Jesus Christ, then you&#8217;ve missed life, and you have to train your children, I think, to know how to relate to him on their own when you&#8217;re not watching.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This expresses my thoughts exactly. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve done that with my children. I do not doubt they will be successful in the world, but do they have a REAL LIFE?<br \/>\nI pray that God will continue to be the perfect Parent to me and to my children, and raise us up to be mature in Christ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Life radio program is doing a week of programs on &#8220;After the Kids Grow Up.&#8221; The first day&#8217;s topic is &#8220;Releasing your child to adulthood.&#8221; Dennis Rainey, the host, says, &#8220;Know what adulthood is. You&#8217;re raising your children to become independently dependent upon Jesus Christ. If we&#8217;re not passing on a faith to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}