Rock a bye baby on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby cradle and all....... As poetic as it is instructive, the above-quoted piece somewhat sums up the law of cause and effect which governs all physical nature. This is also applicable to the home. How the man and his woman live and the choices they make, to a very large extent, determine the quality of the children under their roof. Children themselves constitute an index to a larger socio-cultural context. The baby feels good when the cradle rocks. And this is much fun. But when the bough breaks, the cradle falls. This sometimes happen out of carelessness. When the right instructions are not given or carried out, your child falls. Children generally pass through many and diverse experiences in their process of growth and maturity. These experiences may emanate from their parental upbringing, environment, school, peer group, and the society. When parents stand up to the challenges posed by these experiences in child upbringing, the chances are that such a child may grow up armed with the right attitude to life-physically, emotionally, psychologically and morally, both at home and in the larger society. "Give someone a hook, and let him fish for himself." Training a child is just like giving a child the right teachings and allowing him grow with it. It is just like food. When the diet is balanced, the physical health of the child is assured. This is also true of other sectors of human development- physical, mental, spiritual. But when the reverse is the case, then this deficiency affects the health and growth of the child. He is exposed to a wide range of diseases and sicknesses, the totality of which may give rise to instability of various sort, stunted growth, and even premature death. This book contains ideas that may help our today's parents in raising children in God's way. WORDS A way to raise humble kids is to start by using polite and positive words. "Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them." Unknown author Remember that when you change the input, the output is changed. You see, in training kids, any word you use on or against them is going to have strong effect on them. For instance, when a positive word is the input, there is going to be a positive output, and when negative word is the input, there is going to be a negative output. LOVE Love is the most powerful force for good training of kids as said in Proverbs 22: 6. The need for parents to demonstrate their love for each other even in the presence of their children is also very important. Parents must practice what they teach. How can you love your children that much when you do not show love to your spouse? If you truly love your children, then you have to value and love your spouse because these children belong to both of you. If husband and wife truly do love each other, they will be thoughtful and considerate of each other and the children will stand to benefit enormously from such inspiring relationship. If the child grows up experiencing mum and dad showing little respect and kindness towards each other and often engaging in verbal, if not even physical conflicts, the child slowly but surely sees marriage as a battle-ground, and that the family is not something to enjoy but something to tolerate and leave as soon as possible. Parents should know this and make sure that the environment where they want to train their child is safe and sound. This book is a product of experiences, observations, research, and the word of God, aimed at meeting the challenges of family life and child rearing. In a dynamic society like ours, it assures that it is obviously possible for responsible parents to raise God-fearing children even in a world that is fast going uncontrollably permissive. Let us, Train up kids in the way they should go, so that when they are old they'd not depart fro