Teach Kids to Improve and Be The Best They Can Be with Repentance

Teach Kids to Improve and Be The Best They Can Be with Repentance

Today’s success principle is repentance.

Repentance may seem an entirely spiritual principle. But did you know repentance is for more than just Bible Study?

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Repentance is turning from bad to good, from good to better, and from better to best. If you are anywhere on that path, you need repentance.

What Does Repentance Have To Do With Your Homeschool?

How is repentance important in homeschooling?

If you homeschool the way we do then your goal is not only to have your kids be able to say their 123’s and ABC’s. Your goal is to teach them to function in society and to make a positive impact on the world.

Your kids are human. As they learn and grow, they will accidentally offend somebody. They will make costly ($) mistakes. Your kids will make messes and they will come up with ideas that don’t work.

All of these situations will introduce a need for repentance to some degree.

You Have To Own Your Mistakes In Order To Fix Your Mistakes.

Repentance teaches kids a multitude of things – the first of which is owning up to their mistakes.

Many people try and dodge responsibility for their mistakes.

Whether you’re interacting with your boss, some clientele, or just friends and family; if you are never ‘at fault’ for the things that happen, eventually these people are likely to leave. And if they don’t leave – they won’t trust you with anything.

You have to own your mistakes in order to fix your mistakes.

The second thing repentance teaches kids is recognizing that what they did was wrong – or at least what could have been better.

If you go through life with the belief that you can do no wrong and everything you do is right and perfect then you will have a very unremarkable life.

If you go through life thinking you have no room to improve – and therefore you don’t work to improve yourself and get better – then you will go through life never doing anything of real value for anybody.

Is that who you want your kids to become?

We want our kids to make a difference in the world.

In their homes, in their communities, and in the world – we want our kids to make a REAL difference.

And kids who learn repentance and self-improvement while they are young grow up to become the biggest innovators of their time.

Repentance Teaches Kids to Accept Consequences

The third thing repentance teaches your kids is the ability to accept consequences like a capable, functioning adult.

Pay for your mistakes and go above and beyond to try and set things right.

Always try to make things right with everybody whom you have wronged.

If you do this consistently then people will give you grace all day every day because they know ‘you will fix it if you break it.’

The Ability To Progress

Now repentance is more than just apologizing for mistakes you have made. Repentance also includes making note of things you missed that you could have done better.

Through repentance, all humans have the ability to progress and improve. And that is perhaps the most important skill we could ever develop.

Teaching Your Kids About FEELING Sorry

Godly sorrow means feeling badly because you did something wrong that is against God’s commands.

It has nothing to do with being caught and wishing you could avoid the consequences of your actions. Godly sorrow is straight-up sorrow for knowing you COULD HAVE chosen better but you decided not to.

Repentance teaches your child to have Godly sorrow for what they have done wrong.

This distinction is important because this will help shape the new person that needs to be born out of the situation.

If you feel bad for doing bad, then you will consistently want to do good. This will help your child feel good about WHAT they are doing and WHO they are.

Teaching Kids to SAY They’re Sorry

Repentance teaches your children to SAY they are sorry.

Feeling sorry is good. But SAYING “I am sorry” will soften the hearts of those involved. It opens the opportunity to learn and grow from your mistakes.

Admitting you are wrong will grow you in the eyes of all involved (not that this is the reason you should say sorry). Saying sorry will also grow you in your own eyes. You will feel the burden of not doing your best lifted as you forgive yourself and are forgiven by others.

Repentance is the path we take to become the best we can be.

You can’t become something new without first letting go of the old.

Use this principle of success every day and you will grow and improve each and every day.

And isn’t learning and growing what we want out of a good education?

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