- Appropriate and Meaningful Touch: in the Bible, fathers and grandparents laid hands on their children and grandchildren. The Bible also contains many other examples of touch, included when Jesus "took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them" Mark 10:16
- Words of Love and Acceptance: in many homes today, children grow up feeling that they are loved - yet they never hear words that express this love. If that's the case, then they've never received a verbal blessing from their parents. Their parents may care for them when they're sick, but kids also need to hear words of love and acceptance.
- Value Placed on the Child: Blessings used in the Bible attached a high value to children. They were words of praise and honor that imprinted a beautiful picture of parental love upon the child's memory.
- Acknowledgement of a Special Future: In biblical times, when parents would offer a blessing to a child, they would pick a character trait they felt God could use or affirm in the future. The blessing was a powerful way of encouraging a positive look at who the child could be, backed by a parent's belief in him or her.
- Genuine Commitment: Finally, the blessing assumed that these actions and words were backed with the genuine commitment of a parent.
Meeting the need of our child's need for affirmation doesn't have to be difficult. Our goal as parents should be to build up our sons and daughters. Once we, as parents, can learn how to do those things, our children can and will feel blessed. They are kind of a different spin on the Five Love Languages.
Now you just have to learn to: interpret it for each of your children individually.
Are you excited to become an active blesser for your kids? There is a website to visit to become a part of a national incentive in changing our kids' lives - http://www.theblessing.com/
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