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| Section: Walking In The Faith |
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| Category: Biblical Teaching / Lesson |
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| Are You Raising A Full Circle Thinker? |
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We live in a world that is filled with propaganda. One of the most important lessons that we can teach our children is how to discern truth from lies; fact from fiction. Every time we pick up a newspaper or turn on the news we are bombarded with information. As a result, we have to process all that information and decipher what is truth and what is not.
It is vital that we arm our children with the ability to form moral opinions based on facts. If it’s hard for us parents to discern truth, how much more our children? Teaching your children to find the facts themselves enables them to be Full Circle Thinkers. In our house we use the Bible as our plumb line. If you learn early in life to line up all issues, using the Bible as your standard, you won’t fall into confusion.
Have you ever been around someone who is ranting and raving about some issue and, if you start asking them to explain why they think that way, they get angry and huff off? Most likely it’s not because they are right; it’s because they are embarrassed! They really don’t know the facts; they are just repeating what they have heard without checking it out.
When we parrot what we hear instead of checking out the facts first, then are cornered by someone who does know the facts, we tend to become defiant and argumentative. We close our mind off to what that person is saying because we don’t want to be wrong. We tend to say “my mind’s made up; don’t confuse me with the facts”! In other words: we short circuit our reasoning by denying the facts! This is what I call an Open Ended Thinker. They are unwilling to check out the facts and form an informed opinion.
On the other hand, Full Circle Thinkers take an issue, weigh out both sides, then draw a conclusion based on the facts. This, my friend, is a Full Circle Thinker! That, in a nutshell, is what we should want our children to be.
The following defines a Full Circle Thinker:
-Full: with nothing missing: with nothing or nobody left out or missing, or with no part uncompleted or used
-Circle: A process or series of events that ends at the point at which it began or that repeats itself continuously.
-Thinker: To use the mind to consider ideas and make judgments.
I want to encourage you to talk about all kinds of topics with your children. Ask what they think about certain issues and to explain why they feel that way. Get them to think about what they are saying. If they are confused on certain issues, research those issues together and find the right conclusions based on the Word of God and the facts. The internet can be a wonderful resource for researching all kinds of topics. Teach your children to be Full Circle Thinkers. It will be the gift that keeps on giving! |
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| Date of Submission: 2007-06-04 01:06:47 |
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