Alphabet for What Dads and Moms Can Do for their Children:

A – Attend events, but not make their identity (or your relationship w/ them) be about that activity.….

B – Believe in them. ("Attempt great things for God. Expect great things from God.")

C – Coach (literally &/or figuratively).

D – Don’t jump out of the raft, and don’t become weary in well-doing.

E – Empathize.

F – Floor time.

G – Give.

H – Hear their heart.

I – Incarnate (not be emotionally distant).

J – Juggle (literally &/or figuratively.)

K – Know WWWWWH is important to them.

L – Listen well. Learn well. Love well.

M – Memorize and meditate on Philippians 4:4-9.

N – Not forsake the gathering together of the saints.

O – Own (our) stuff (vs. what Adam and Eve did, cf. 1 John 1:9)

P – Pray.

Q – Quiet time(s).

R – Read to and with them.

S – Shepherd/serve.

T – Technology. Talks.

U – Understand them (as best you can).

V – Volunteer with them.

W – Walk with God…. Water daily (“Kids are like fescue seedlings…")

X – X-out exasperation (cf. 12 Ways Parents Provoke Children to Anger)

Y – Yield to God and to others, whenever it wouldn't be wrong to.

Z – Zeal...May we not lose a sense of awe that God chooses and uses US to reach and teach the next generation by Him and for Him.