Parents are the ones most closely connected to their child and who have the most personal emotional investment in seeing that their child grows healthy and strong. They have more weight in the long-term development of who their child becomes than anyone else who cares for the child. Parents are profoundly influential in the lives of their children.

After becoming a mother, I realized that a part of my being faithful to God was being faithful to steward the lives of children He gave to me as a blessing. This entrustment came to be a part of my living relationship with Him. This was the way He determined children would be cared for by the parents who called them theirs.

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