{"id":6086,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/apologizing-to-your-kids\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:52","slug":"apologizing-to-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/apologizing-to-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"APOLOGIZING\n  TO YOUR KIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Apology; Children; Family; Integrity; Mistakes; Respect<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Reference:<\/b> Ephesians 6:4<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>One day I found my son, four, trying to give his sister, two, a drink of water from his cup. Pam\u2019s clothes were soaked, and I scolded my son for his carelessness. Later I realized the boy had been trying to share his water with his little sister. But because I spoke on impulse, his generosity earned him criticism.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Harry,\u201d I told him. \u201cI shouldn\u2019t have scolded you when you were being so nice to share.\u201d His look of relief told me I\u2019d done the right thing.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>No matter how much we love our children, we still make mistakes. Apologizing shows integrity and encourages our children to do the same when they make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Elsie Brunk, \u201cR-E-S-P-E-C-T,\u201d <i>Christian Parenting Today<\/i> (March\u2013April 2000)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Apology; Children; Family; Integrity; Mistakes; Respect Reference: Ephesians 6:4 One day I found my son, four, trying to give his sister, two, a drink of water from his cup. Pam\u2019s clothes were soaked, and I scolded my son for his carelessness. Later I realized the boy had been trying to share his water with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/apologizing-to-your-kids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;APOLOGIZING<br \/>\n  TO YOUR KIDS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}