What Life Skills Should Children Be Taught at Home?

Few things are more relevant to today's Christian parents than the impact our social environment has on children. In an era of overwhelming secularist influence how can Christian parents preempt worldly temptations and pressures? How can they prepare their children to deflect social expectations that contrast Biblical principles? With what "life-lessons" should parents equip their children? If Jesus walked the Earth today, what life-lessons would He teach today's youngsters?

Prayer is the primary conduit that connects us to Our Heavenly Father. Can you, as a Christian, imagine life with no prayer? Without it, how would you communicate with God?

I cannot remember a time when I didn't pray. No matter how tough things became or how low I felt I always had the comfort of prayer from which to draw consolation, inner strength, and to reconnect with God. What a blessing it was to have parents who took the time to teach me to pray at a very young age, and to activate that privilege in my life by encouraging me to pray daily throughout my childhood. Jesus instructs us in Matthew 26:41 to, "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation..." Prayer is a life-lesson no youngster should be without: the proactive nemesis to Satan's authority and influence over our lives, and a potent weapon against his lies.