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Family Life
How teaching children healthy coping skills may help prevent addiction
by Allyson Fox Pitre
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he initial instinct of most people in society and in the church is to protect the innocent and vulnerable from any discomfort. This is true of parents, especially parents with small children. If pain can be avoided, it is the duty of a parent to guide their young one through the perils of early life and social interactions with only having positive experiences, right? What if the obligation of parents is not going to extreme lengths to prevent failure for their children, but instead, walking them through ways to experience their pain and emerge from the other side in a healthy manner? 12
September 2015 l Baton Rouge Christian Life Magazine