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    I Wish Sons Came With Instructions
    I Wish Sons Came With Instructions
    I Wish Sons Came With Instructions
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    I Wish Sons Came With Instructions

    By Harry Rockefeller

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    Within these pages I hope you get to know me. Mostly, I hope you come to realize my intent to carry out my calling by God to raise my own sons to know their Heavenly Father. I enjoyed a good loving human father but only for the first 18 years of my life. Raising my sons had to be done without his help. But, rather than being at a disadvantage, I knew I had a great opportunity to lean on a promise to those in submission to the Holy God found in the pages of the Bible. He is "father of the fatherless". [Psalm 68:5]This book is not just about general principles: love God, abide in Christ, love your sons, be humble, deny yourself, etc. These are all important but here I share personal stories about dealing with my sons at all stages of life. My one-year-old woke up screaming from a nightmare. He's barely able to talk. What do I say or do? My 3-year-old loves his independence walking at his pace. Next, he decides he is big enough to carry a large package by himself out of a store. Should I let him try? When should I talk to my son about sex? What should I say? How concerned should I be about what he is being taught in public school? What should I do if it doesn't agree with what I actually want my son to be taught? How do I "teach" my adult son to think for himself about what is right or wrong, good or evil? All these questions and more are answered using real family stories. But, by themselves, my life stories, no matter how interesting, is not the main point. My Heavenly Father gave me the answers, so in these stories you will also find relevant Scripture.The main point is to cause something written here to resonate with you. Maybe a memory of something your Mom, Dad, or Grandma said to you when you were a child would suddenly fill your mind and, right now you would have a decision to make. Do I want to love my own son as I know I should? Am I being selfish if I spend this money in this way? Perhaps you need to make a decision. You may have more than one path ahead of you and don't know which way to turn. Should I open my Bible and pray for godly wisdom for myself and my wife in what to do with our son? If not for your sake, get close to your Heavenly Father for the sake of your son. Build a parenting foundation on the Word of God.I pray you would cultivate a relationship with your loving Heavenly Father and teach that to your own son.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781595558817
    I Wish Sons Came With Instructions
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    Harry Rockefeller

    I am a blessed father of three sons; son of one Heavenly Father for the past 50 years; husband of one wife; and as of this date grandfather of seven children.  When not being a computer nerd I enjoy bicycling especially with family.

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      I Wish Sons Came With Instructions - Harry Rockefeller

      I WISH SONS CAME WITH

      INSTRUCTIONS

      I WISH SONS CAME WITH

      INSTRUCTIONS

      Harry Rockefeller

      © 2018 Harry Rockefeller

      I Wish Sons Came with Instructions

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Elm Hill, an imprint of Thomas Nelson. Elm Hill and Thomas Nelson are registered trademarks of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc.

      Elm Hill titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Illustrations by T.J. Rockefeller

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®). Copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2018951984

      ISBN 978-1-595558329 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-595558725 (Hardbound)

      ISBN 978-1-595558817 (eBook)

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      Please note that footnotes in this ebook may contain hyperlinks to external websites as part of bibliographic citations. These hyperlinks have not been activated by the publisher, who cannot verify the accuracy of these links beyond the date of publication.

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Who Is in Charge?

      The Chain of Command

      1.1. House mouse poem [Prov 14:12; 16:2, 3, 25]

      Authority and Responsibility

      1.2. Dad and son, birds and bees day was special time

      1.3. Zygote probability [Matt 25:34; Eph 1:4, 5]

      1.4. In grade school on parent day

      1.5. Jeremy sixth grade - skills for adolescents

      1.6. Jeremy eighth grade - viewing adult-themed films in public school

      1.7. I am a promise, I am a possibility

      1.8. Money

      1.8.1 Rockefeller household budget

      1.8.2. Actual budget

      1.8.3. 1,000 dollars at Christmas

      1.8.9. Offer of PC at high school graduation

      1.9. Feed your pet before you eat

      Building Character

      2.1. Nickel for telling the pee-truth story

      2.2. Wisdom

      2.3. Handling success

      2.4. Persistence

      2.5. Spank for disobedience only

      Letting Go

      3.1. Discerning good from evil—eavesdropping

      Conclusion

      4.1. Micah 6:8

      4.2. Psalm 119:129–136

      4.3. 2 Chron 7:14

      4.4. Rev 5:12

      FOREWORD

      Why would someone write another book on raising sons? Isn’t there already a plethora of them out there? You expect I would have anticipated that question, right? You can bet on that. I am hoping that through my storytelling of my real-life family events, you will get to know me: my likes, dislikes, motives, thoughts, as well as my actions. Well, now that for all practical purposes I’m done raising my three sons, I would like to tell my story—testimony—if you will. This is certainly not a

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