if you LIKE a bird, you cage it, but if you LOVE the bird, you will allow it to go! Birds can't fulfil their destiny inside the cage. Their wings and flying potentials become useless. This post is not about birds. It is about children and over-possessive parents!

...The End

-Stephen Treasure
© January 2026

TREASURED PARENTING NUGGET #5.

"Parents, give listening ears to your children. Don't be too busy to have time for them. Create an enabling environment for them confide in you about what worries them. Let them confide in you about their fears and failures."

"A child you refuse to listen to today will refuse to listen to you tomorrow. A child you refuse to listen to will listen to others outside who might likely influence him negatively."

"And when that happens, he will stop listening to you permanently, because you too refused to listen to him when it matters most." (Proverbs 22:6)

© Stephen Treasure
March 2025.

TREASURED PARENTING NUGGET #4.

"When you refuse to listen to your children, their friends in school, their peers at home and other people outside the home will help you listen to them and advise them wrongly."

"When you refuse to listen to your children, you push them outside into the mouths of lions outside the home to destroy them. If you are not a good listener, you can never be a good parent." (1 Corinthians 15:33).

-Stephen Treasure
© August 2025.

TREASURED PARENTING NUGGET #3.

"There is nothing wrong in parents being friends with their kids. Parents who are friends with their children often parent without stress and with rest of mind because children often listen to their friends more than their parents. They often confide in their friends more than they confide in their parents."

"So why not be their friend today, so that you can have access to their world. Be their friend so that you can become their confidant and be able to guide them aright in their difficult moments. (Matthew 19:14)"

-Stephen Treasure
© August 2025

TREASURED PARENTING NUGGET #2.

"Do not be a "YES" parents. It is not everything that your children ask and request that you give to them. There are some cravings and desires that are inimical to children's long-term physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing. Being a yes parent can also breed a strong sense of entitlement in children.

In a nutshell, granting every of your children's wish does not make you a caring and loving parent, but an indulging parent."

-Stephen Treasure
© August 2025

TREASURED PARENTING NUGGET #1.

"Children are like brand new computers, especially when they are toddlers. Whatever you garbage into them is what they garbage out! Whatever you inculcate in them is what they exhibit. Whatever they see you do, is what they do!"

"Unfortunately, many parents engage in bad practices in front and in the presence of their kids, yet, they complain that their children have become delinquent and badly behaved. Charity, they say, begins at home! A child you refused to train well today will obviously bring you pain and shame tomorrow!" Shalom (Proverbs 29:17)

-Stephen Treasure
© August 2025