4. Let Your Children Have Fun—Even at a Church Gathering
An overwhelming response from the PKs in the survey was their expressing the daunting feeling of pressure to perform according to an unattainable standard. Children know how to play and have fun. PKs, unfortunately, learn how to repress and rebel in an environment that does not allow them to make mistakes. As pastor, you set the tone in the church.
You can’t expect your PKs to behave differently than the DKs (doctor’s kids), especially at a church gathering. Your identity and worth is not wrapped up in how well your children perform. It is secured in Christ, so fill your home with lots of laughter. One day, you won’t have to pick up after them and they won’t be screaming in the halls and they won’t beg for five more minutes to play outside. It is that day that you will wish you had let them have fun without imposing on them the pressure to look like the perfect family.