Just Answer the Question

Last week (if you are an avid NBFamilies Blog reader) we saw each of the family pastors share their Faith Talks surrounding the Passover Seder.  And this week you may have also noticed a trend: Baptizing our kids!!  Though, Jax & Rae (our oldest two) also recently finished the "I'm a Christian Now" class with Sank and the Chan-Man, they want to be baptized in Haiti.  Please, stay tuned in June for that really cool post.

That being said... What if things are not going so well for you raising your kids right now?  Well, if that's you (like me), apparently you are not alone!!  A recent study was completed stating that "kids aggravate their parents more than they did 15 years ago."  The study wraps up with more questions than answers... Here are just a few that I have: 

• Are current financial stresses causing some of the tension? 
• Are there new themes in our culture that makes it more difficult?
• Are our kids actually worse than we were? 
• Are todays parents just less equipped than those in previous generations?   

Nope... No answers, just that we (current parents) are more stressed by our kids today than before.  So what does that mean for us?  NBFamilies just finished up our 'Spring Family Equipping' and we debriefing about our times we all made an observation that "parents just don't seem to have much time!"  Finding a D-Group for families, committing to the two week class, having a regular sit-down dinner, planning a faith talk, etc. all seemed hard because of time.  As a parent of three, personally working a full-time job, a spouse who also has a job, school musicals, sports, church activities, "friends" birthday parties and on and on.  I get it...Life is nuts!!! 

But the amount of time we have didn't change from 15 years ago.  I love the quote: "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein."  I'm not trying to get on to anyone here.  I'm just stating life is crazy and we can never plan ahead of all the crazy that will probably happen.  But I wanted to make a plea for this post to be different... Can we make this one more interactive?    

Please answer one or more of the following questions in the comments:

• Why do you think our kids are more aggravating today?
• What is the hardest thing in your schedule every week?
• How can NBFamilies do a better job of Equipping or Supporting you?

The Bergs

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