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Many Are the Joys of the Spouses Who Get Along!

Let us treasure marriage harmony more than anything and do our best to maintain peace and tranquillity in our home… Then, children will follow our example and our home will thrive.

What Do Spouses Need to Do to Have Good and Healthy Children?

Children need to be taught both by their parents and spiritual parents about the fear of God, faith, mercy, humbleness and obedience to the Holy Scripture. They need to be taught from a young age about fasting, prayer, confession and piety towards the poor and respect for all people.

What Do Spouses Need to Do to Have Good and Healthy Children?

Children need to be taught both by their parents and spiritual parents about the fear of God, faith, mercy, humbleness and obedience to the Holy Scripture.

“Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me”

Fulfilling this divine mission is possible by bringing the children to church, where they get in contact with the orthodox teaching and the Holy Mysteries, where they learn to love Christ and to follow His teachings.

Plant in Your Children’s Heart the Love of Nature!

From the cradle, children need to be surrounded by beauty. They need to be taught to see the beauty of the flowers, of the trees and of the butterflies around them.

Children Need to Be Kept Away From Danger

Parents need to understand that the foundation of the child’s health is laid since the pregnancy. The physical and mental health of the child depends on the way the mother bears her pregnancy.

Behind every pain there is a blessing

Pain is a bad thing, but behind it, behind the suffering and the test lies the blessing of God, the rebirth and the refashion of man and of family. Almost everyone owes their return to this aspect. Behind any trial there is God’s will and of course at that time we cannot see the benefit, but in time we will be able to see it. We have so many examples in this regard!

Pray together for a tight knit family!

When your children will say “Holy God” they will hear the chants of the angels, who were once seen by a child in Constantinople in the time of the patriarch Proclus. When they will read “It is truly right to bless you, o, Theotokos”, they will find themselves in a poor cell on Mount Athos, where the prayer was first said by the Angel Gabriel; and when they will read the Evening Prayers, children will remember about the great John Chrysostom. 

Here the true happiness: to love and be loved!

Love is not genetically transmitted from your ancestors such as beauty, eye colour, strength and talent are. It cannot be inherited as the fortune of your rich uncle. I cannot be bought with money, on the contrary, richness is a huge drawback for love, because often, rich people are loved for what they have and not for what they are. Love can be achieved only through personal effort. It can also be received as a gift, but unless appreciated this gift will be soon taken from us.  

Children, always bear God in your thoughts!

Even from infancy, children will get accustomed to pray before and after a meal, before and after finishing lessons, leaving or getting into the house, or before anything else that they do.

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