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A standard for parenting
When a child seems unmanageable and a parent feels frustrated or unsure about what to do, how does turning to God help them both?
"I Hate you!" Chilling words, from child to parent. Even when we know that they represent only the passion of the moment, they can be upsetting. At times our children seem to be versions of ourselves—and we don't always like what we see. What a challenge children can present; they force us to examine and clean up our own lives.
Most parents long to be good mothers and fathers. They want to make wise decisions and nurture excellence. They want to guide, protect, and encourage appropriately. What parents would not welcome an underlying standard by which to judge all attitudes and behavior? Certainly Christ Jesus presented this standard. His life showed perfect love in action. His Sermon on the Mount has specific instructions for the wide variety of everyday circumstances we all encounter. The Golden Rule, "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," Matt. 7:12. is the essence of these teachings on relating to one another.

April 10, 1989 issue
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A standard for parenting
Cynthia Clague
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As shepherds
Jane Murdock
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You can revise the past
Elaine R. Follis
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Spiritual healing: proof of divine Principle
Steven L. Fair
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Conversations with oneself
Marguerite E. Buttner
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Always an unbroken family
Allison W. Phinney, Jr.
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Finding beauty within
Ann Kenrick
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Divine Love is the Shepherd
Ruth C. Price
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When I was thirteen I was struck in the face by a...
Scott Hockenberry
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How truly grateful I am for Christian Science!
Becky Marsh Long
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Christian Science was introduced to my mother at a time when...
Evelyn A. Dutcher
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One night I woke so ill that I could not even get up
Jeanette C. Rice
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My brother and I were enrolled in a Christian Science Sunday School...
Muriel Purse with contributions from Brian Leslie Purse, Julian Mark Purse
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From hand to hand
The Editors with contributions from I. B. Y.