You can't talk about parenting without talking first about your better half. After all, it was God's intention that man and wife ruled together. I'm not discounting parents who are divorced. But this chapter is dedicated to parents who are still together.
The Right Temperature – Love and Joy
The best way to love your kids is to love your wife, and vice versa. The foundation of your child's happiness largely hinges on the harmony between you and your spouse. So what if the child is happy? It's really simple. When a child is happy, he or she will have a higher tendency to do good. But when he or she has an underlying unhappiness, chances are that they will resort to doing wrong. Even as adults, we humans find it easy to do good when we're happy, and we're usually most happy when we feel loved and appreciated. This is why we change for the better when we become Christians. Because God's love swells within us and as a result, we become happy, and that happiness facilitates that propensity to do good. Unfortunately, the flip side of this truth also applies. Almost 86.4% of juvenile delinquents and 92.8% of hard core criminals come from broken homes. In 2005, a well celebrated judge, Judge Curran, who has 40 years experience in criminal law, said "the broken home" was at the root of much of the crime he saw.
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