Spiritual Maturity

Many of us have heard this phrase "A rotten apple rots other," sadly this could apply to our children. If we consider a bad apple one person that is influencing to our children, this saying could become to be active in our lives. In the process of maturity of our children, they can be influenced by many people, we cannot control all the people who they establish relationship, at the school, many time through internet. All this factors an this influences could affects directly to their spiritual life and drag our children to the point of they lose sight of God and become to act like the person who is influencing. Sometimes our children are not aware of the danger that conveys to establish a relationship with certain people, I can tell you and example about a young man that try to help spiritually and he did not have the maturity to do that and he was dragged to the sinful lifestyle. We should be aware of this situations to try be a good guide to our children and even to the friends who are suffering or fighting the spiritual fight.

Missing Elements!

 There are four essential elements of culture that were compromised cumulative and collectively in the described moving from the farms to the suburban and urban areas. These factors that now are missing to a significant degree in our culture are: networks, meaningful roles, on-the-job training for life, parenting resources. The networks are essential to the human social functioning, and the simplest of all networks is the friendship, sometimes the absence of a networks the   human behavior learn to create substitutes for those that originally occurred spontaneously, this mean that a laugh produced by a joke between friends, now the children looking for a video in youtube and laugh, and in this way he find a substitute to producer of a laugh. Meaningful roles, this factor is in part responsibility fro the parents, because we need to deal with our young people actively in ways that cause them to believe they are significant contributors rather than just objects or passive recipients of our activities. The on-the-job training for life includes increasingly complex lessons in patience, self-discipline, deferred gratification, personal initiative, sacrifice, and hard work.
The absence of this factors also are affecting in some degree to our youth groups, the usage in excess of social media, sexting and problems related to the behavior of the children are things that could drag away our children of the spiritual growth.

References: Glenn, Stephen H. And., and Jane Nelsen. Raising Self-reliant Children in a Self-indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Young Capable People