the rest of their lives? As parents, I do believe that we have
a responsibility to help our kids
make this decision but it should
start way earlier than their senior
year. I believe that this is a conversation that should take place
in the 8th grade and then we
should start to build the game
plan together from there.
The Bible gives us some direction in all of this. Proverbs 22:6
says “Train up a child in the way
he should go: and when he is
old, he will not depart from it.”
A lot of people use this verse to
mean to bring up your child in the
way of the faith and even though
they may veer a little bit off of the
path that they will come back to
it. While I believe that this true,
I also believe that this can pertain to the career path that they
choose. The phr ase in this verse
“in the way” is derek in Hebrew.
This means road, path, journey,
direction, manner, of course of
life and of moral character. Their
course of life can also mean
the direction that their life goes
based on what they ultimately
decide after they graduate.
to say that your child is a doctor
or lawyer. As parents, we want
them to have a job that will have
a great income and security.
Sometimes we put on them the
things that we wish we had done
and live through them to fulfill
our dreams. How do we know
So how do we do this with our what is right for them? It is a
children? How are we to help huge responsibility and one that
them make the right choices for should not be taken lightly. We
their life and not do it selfishly? In cannot be concerned about how
our society, it is a status symbol it is going to happen or what is