You’re invited to a monthly pot luck dinner. The purpose of these dinners are to encourage parents to interact and pick up positive parenting ideas to help love and nurture children. The group has moderators to take questions and get practical answers. Children are not born with instruction so the group provides the support and place to ask questions.
By making time to attend this worthwhile event, you’ll save time avoiding and overcoming future problems. Highly recommended for parents with children under seven years of age, children and anyone interested in parenting are welcomed to attend. “Parenting is the high calling in a person’s life” ~ Ruth Matsuura, M.D.
Septembers Topic: Dads the Center of a Family
Moderators: Ruth Matsuura, M.D. and Carl Okuyama
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm to 8:300 pm
Cost: No Fees, Pot Luck Dinner
Place: Carl and Amy’s Place, 1346 Kilikina Street, Hilo, Above Hilo Medical Center (take second left Lahi, first right Kilikina)
Guests: Stephen Carter; Isha Charbonneau; and Regina Purinton of Parents, Inc.
Hilo, Hawaii – Starts at Home will be on K-CIF FM 90.3 – Friday, September 10, 2010 at 7:00 am. Leonard Mukai, Ph.D. and Carl Okuyama will be speaking about successful parenting and Dads the center of the family. Wives and children are encouraged when the family is led by a strong and participating dads.
To find happiness Walt Disney said, ”A man should never neglect his family for business.” Oil Tycoon J. Paul Getty said “I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.” And, U.S. President Bill Clinton said “The single biggest social problem in our society may be the growing absence of fathers from their homes and children.”
Host of the show is Robert Daley, Jr., President of K-CIF and Pastor Bob Bruzelius.
“Starts at Home” – Encouraging Parents and Loving Children.
Parent’s love sacrifices for children to get through the toughest of times. Long suffering builds character yours and the children’s, so “hang in” there because the future holds much hope and joy.
We are thankful to those who encourage parents and children that help build positive parenting in our communities.
WHATTT!!! You’re kidding, you want me to submit to my husband, no way! Does this sound crazy, an impossibility in today’s society? No, this statement is the foundation to a successful marriage where children obey, listen, and learn, and creates a loving and stable family that can weather the storms of life.
Encouraging Parents and Loving Children
Personally, I found this truth later in my marriage and now my marriage and relationship with my wife Amy and children has improved and continues to get better. As fathers we must love our wives, this is the cornerstone principal and secret of successful families. As fathers we take the lead, make sacrifices, protect, and accept our wives for who they are. We think we can change them, demand results, and require sexual exchange .. all wrong! It starts at home with fathers loving their wives. Without love, no way will a wife submit, nor children obey.
Husbands, let’s agree what love is: it’s spiritual, and inspirational. Love is what successful families are made of and the main ingredient in block buster big hit movies. Love is patient, kind, not envy, not boastful, not proud, not rude, not self-seeking, not easily angered, keeps no record of wrong doing, forgives, does not delight in evil, rejoices with the truth, always protects, trusts, hopes, preserves. Love never fails. Love is God’s greatest gift to you to pass to your wife and children, we pass it forward.
When I started practicing this concept my relationship with my wife changed. She was no longer a property or trophy, she became my best friend, partner, and wife. At the same time I started to use this concept with our cat Tigger and I saw changes in Tigger’s behavior. At that point, I realized that it was not Tigger or Amy that changed, it was me. The concept is simple, we can’t throw stones at our wives and expect them to follow; instead don’t be surprised if they run away.
On children, when children see and observe their parent’s loving relationship, they have an easier time obeying. Children are naive and don’t have a clue what is right or wrong, they’re all eyes, ears, and emotions. Children are like absorbent sponges, automatically soaking in material where they are placed. Children are required to obey their parents as they have no knowledge or wisdom, and parents teach them for their own good.
This period of children’s obedience begins early in life, if we don’t start early in life we miss the opportunity to plant good seeds into their existence. This is a time in life when the soil for planting is deep and rich. As loving, nurturing, and lovingly strict parents, we need to do this before the age of seven (7); contrary if we don’t teach them the world through media and other poor examples will teach them. Then the older they get the more rebellious they become. It’s difficult to plant seeds when children are teenagers. According to many social studies marriage dissatisfaction is the lowest when children become teenagers ….research graphs show it’s the pits! From ancient biblical writings to modern educational methods, time reveals to teach a child early in life and as they become older they will not depart from what we teach them.
Husbands and dads, it starts at home with an inspirational spirit encouraging us to love our wives, wives willingly submitting, and children following. Try it in good faith …. it works! God bless you and your family.
Starts at Home 