What if in focusing on the seemingly urgent ‼ life skills for kids (homework turned in! CPR! Sew a button! 🧵), we miss the best—the most eternal? How can we make space for what matters forever? How can we squirrel away 🐿 life skills for kids that make them want to connect with God? Could spiritual life skills be as natural to them as putting their clothes in the hamper? 👕 (Well. More natural than that, hopefully … ) Take confession, for example. I love it when kids voluntarily shuck sin’s blindfold. When, from constant practice, they observe the log in their eye (Matthew 7:4), seeing how their sin contributes and destroys—so they can make it right. This means creating a subculture in our families. As parents, we set the tone by readily, sincerely apologizing: 😞 Not in insecure self-shielding 🛡 or as a way to keep false peace, but regularly owning up to our own junk. Our kids will make oodles of horrible/idiotic decisions. 🙄 But teachable, repentant kids? That we can work wit...