Raising Children

Dear Victorious,

I saw something on Facebook recently about what it might be like if Jesus had been a parent in His humanity. What kind of parent might Jesus have been?

Carla W. - Tomball, TX

Dear Carla,

I suspect that Jesus would not have looked all that differently than the godly parents we see now in society. It is clear that His highest priority would be to love and affirm the child. But it is also clear that an equally important priority of Jesus' parenting would have been to teach His children the ways of the Lord. I think the biggest difference we might have seen in Jesus' parenting is that He would have taken responsibility for leading His children into a personal relationship with God.