Thoughts and Questions for Parents on Father’s Day

iMonk asks some good questions of parents around Father's day and then provides some commentary. Here are the questions:

1. Why so much freedom, money, cars, privacy, free time, video games and electronic devices?

2. Do your teenagers clearly see the deepest values in your life, and understand how those values will affect their life? Or do your teenagers see your values as movable and of little real influence in the kind of person you are?

3. Have you assessed the effects of your own decisions about money, prosperity, freedom, etc. on your child, or have you bought into the lie that kids are just resilient through anything?

4. Do you believe that you are going to tell your teenager what it means to be a normal teenager or an adult? Just where did you pick up that idea?

5. Have you assessed what the wired world means for raising a teenager?

6. What are you doing/being that creates any desire in your children to be a responsible, Christian adult? Particular a disciple of Jesus seeking the Kingdom of God and its righteousness above all else?

7. Are you ready to let God be God and let yourself off the hook?

Click here to read his commentary.

I don't think I agree with everything in his commentary, but this is coming from a guy who whose oldest kid is 6, so what do I know? There are some prophetic zingers though that need to be read and heeded.