Kid Gloves: Biblical Guidelines for Handling Your Kids

By Sandy Adams

Fleece-lined gloves help maintain warm hands and a firm grip. And this is what it takes to be a parent: lots of love coupled with purposeful training and discipline. Yet how do you communicate warmth, while keeping the right grip on your kids? Pastor Sandy takes us to the Bible to discover God’s principles for parenting. Reading this bookl

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chapter By Chapter Books
• Release date: Dec 1, 2016
• ISBN: 9780998164311

Sandy Adams

Sandy Adams was born in Seymour, Indiana, and raised on a Jackson County farm between the small towns of Freetown and Spraytown. Living on a 200-acre farm with only neighbor boys made her a tomboy. And growing up in the sparsely populated area also caused her to develop an active and vivid imagination.A graduate of Freetown High School and a resident of Trafalgar, Sandy has held down forty-two jobs, including thirty-two different lines of work, from janitor to residential home builder, substitute teacher, secretary, beautician, and many more. She contributed columns to the Indian Creek Scout, a weekly newspaper, in the 1990s.A 4-H club leader for more than forty years, Sandy is a member of a garden club, Trafalgar United Methodist Church, Moving Forward with God, and carried the Olympic Torch during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Torch Relay. She has a cosmetology degree and also enjoys crocheting, vegetable and flower gardens, writing poems for her own pleasure, singing in the church choir, and drawing.She was married for fifty-four years to the "love of her life," Coy, who passed away in 2021. She has two sons, two granddaughters, three great-grandchildren, and a stepgreat-granddaughter.Having celebrated her seventy-sixth birthday earlier this year, one of her bits of advice is: "You're never too old to do something in your life. Find your passion and make it happen!"One Crazy Connection is her first book.

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Kid Gloves

Biblical Guidelines for Handling Your Kids

Revised Edition

by Sandy Adams

KID GLOVES

Copyright© 2001 by Sandy Adams

This title is also available as an ebook. Visit www.sandyadams.org.

Published by Calvary Chapel Stone Mountain

1969 McDaniels Bridge Rd SW

Lilburn, GA

30047

www.calvarycsm.com

First paperback edition published 2001 by Chapter By Chapter Books. Copyrighted 1979, 1980, 1982, 2001

New paperback edition published 2016

ISBN: 978-0-9981643-0-4

ISBN: 978-0-9981643-1-1 (e book)

Scripture quotations taken from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyrighted 1979, 1980, 1982, by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

All Rights Reserved. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the express written consent of Chapter By Chapter Books.

Cover image by Ker-Fox Photography (www.KerFox.com)

Printed in the United States of America.

Dedicated to my parents, Olin and Carol Adams.

Thanks for wearing kid gloves!

CONTENTS

Prepared to Parent?

Living Longer and Better

The Purpose of a Parent

The Don’ts of Parenting

The Do’s of Parenting

The Power to Parent

PREFACE

Kid gloves are warm and supple. The fleece lining keeps your hands a comfortable temperature, while still enabling you to maintain a firm grip on the object in hand. Kid gloves is also a proverbial expression for delicate and sensitive treatment. An edgy person, an emotional argument, a spouse with bruised feelings, a misunderstanding between friends—all are situations that need to be handled with kid gloves.

Likewise, a testy two-year-old, an inquisitive kindergartner, a bashful fourth-grader, an eighth-grader who has clammed-up and closed-off, and a sophomore with all the answers—kids of every age need to be handled with kid gloves! Parents need to deal with their children in a way that communicates warmth and love, while maintaining the firm grip of control and the strong hand of authority. Parenting involves not only the right know-how, but the right touch and sensitivity.

For parents, every day seems to bring a new challenge. No two situations, and no two kids are exactly alike. Parents without a clear sense of purpose will quickly find themselves overwhelmed. A mom and dad need trusted guidelines that will help them understand and fulfill their parental responsibilities. This is the help God provides us in the Bible. In this book, we’ll take a close look at one passage, Ephesians 6:1–4. These verses are a game plan for parents. In essence, they supply us with a pair of kid gloves.

God loves parents. He is a parent Himself! He has given us guidelines to help us handle our kids with the balance of tenderness and firmness they so desperately need. It is my prayer that these pages will fashion for you a pair of kid gloves. When you parent with purpose, you can handle your kids with just the right amount of sensitivity and strength.

PREPARED TO PARENT?

In the year 2015, nearly eight million people in this country took a giant step: they brought a baby into the world. They joined the ranks of parenthood, but the percent of those eight million people who were prepared for parenthood is a completely different matter.

Take, for example, the man whose wife left him in charge of his infant son while she went to the grocery store. When the woman returned, she found her son crying and her husband sweating. He was at a loss for what to do. She walked to the crib and instantly detected the problem. With one whiff, she realized the child’s diaper needed to be changed. It had been filled several times over. She moaned, Honey, why didn’t you change the diaper? The new dad held up the box of disposable Huggies and pointed to the print