Our Children need Truth to Live Abundantly.

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"Truth is something that is much needed. It can nourish the soul, but it can be damaging if given too soon or misproportioned to our children.

Let's be honest: even as adults, the truth can shatter our existence if we are unprepared to receive it mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Truth is beautiful but can seem ugly to one who has difficulty accepting the reality it brings.

Have you ever been told the truth and wished you never knew it?

Or forced to live a truth, a reality that you were not used to?

Do you know someone who has lived their life in a bubble, sheltered from the reality of real life, of the shadows in the world?

Then, one day, that bubble bursts, and the reality of life, how people can lie or deceive, the responsibilities of being an adult, expectations that need to be met for one's survival, and the list goes on... hits them in the face.

These most certain truths can be tough to cope with when you have been fed a fantasy, shown only a one-sided view of life, or even catered to your entire life.

The truth of how life can be when forced to face it can be devastating.

This is why it's important that children who are naturally born hungry and curious about everything be fed the truth in portions that their bellies can digest.

It's important to not overly shelter our children from necessary but age-appropriate truths.

If we do this, a false sense of privilege or ideals can take root, which can cause issues in their adult years.

Parents, this isn't about what you didn't have growing up; it's about giving what you did have.

Unfortunately, we are living in an age where the stuff we as parents were given as children that worked and kept us out of trouble, courtrooms, graveyards, and mental crises are being neglected and not being used to raise our children.

We are accepting all the diluted and delusional theories going around about how to "raise your child".

I always say that when you look back at how your parents raised you, always take the good that worked to make you a better adult and leave the bad; anything that you feel made you not so good.

As my mother told me one day, " When I brought you into this world, you didn't come with an instruction book. I had to learn to raise you."

That day, I understood her as never before—as a child and even more as a mother myself.

So, give them a moral code to follow; they need to have their own foundation to stand on, not a faulty one the world has designed for them.

Value systems, respect for self and for others, honesty, clear and direct repercussions for bad behavior, and giving a reaction to actions, good or bad.

Children need to understand that in the real world, there is no reward for bad behavior, and sometimes, good behavior may not always get noticed.

In the end, truth must be the seat they sit on, and they must be taught to give it, be ready to receive it, demand it, and never forsake eating it, lest they be found starving.

#thetruthmatters

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