Maturity

Proverbs 20:21 "An inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing in the end."

Maturity is the key to lasting success. Fame, fortune and power granted to quickly can become a curse instead of a blessing. Our world is full of "child/teen stars" that burned out and burned up in the light of their stardom. But you don't have to be a superstar to feel the sting and pain of immaturity. And I believe that we as parents are unfortunately setting our kids up for destruction. In our desire to bless our kids and give them what we did not have, we have pushed our children into a world that they are not mature enough to handle. Cell phones, laptops, iPods and the Internet are given to our children at earlier and earlier ages and many times without any restraints or boundaries. Through our world of technology children are being introduced and addicted to things at younger and younger ages. Creating problems that will plague them the rest of their lives. I challenge every parent to look at the "inheritance" that you are giving your children and ask yourself are they really mature enough to receive this as a blessing or will it become a thorn in their side. This doesn't mean that we have to total remove the things that we have given them (maybe in some cases) but it does mean that there need to be guidelines or should I say guardrails put in place to keep them out of the ditches of life. Let make sure our blessings are blessings and not traps in disguise