59 DOMINATING A CHILD CREATES A WEAK,
IMMATURE ADULT.

Domination seeks to control a child’s thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and will.

The parent who feels it’s necessary to control a child is insecure. Feeling inwardly inadequate, a controlling parent outwardly appears to be strong, dominating, aggressive and overly confident.

Dominating a child results in a child who fails to mature. Domination creates dependent children who can never make their own decisions. Or, domination creates rebellious children who try to leave home as soon as possible.

Domination says …

•     Think what I think.

•     Do what I do.

•     Be what I am.

•     Feel what I feel.

•     Breathe when I breathe.

The controlling parent is always worried about what a child is thinking or doing. The dominating parent cannot trust a child.

If you are dominating your child, surrender control to God. Take responsibility for your own feelings and actions, and let go of responsibility for everyone else’s.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom. 12:1–2)