# @familylifeinsta on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CiLUcToBHui
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13531400-familylifeinsta-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-09-06T19:23:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** FamilyLife (@familylifeinsta) — https://gondola.cc/familylifeinsta

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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 with.

▶ Grab more ideas 💡 to teach spiritual life skills by clicking the link in today’s Insta story!

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