Strong-willed Children – how to best reach them in Children’s Ministry
Below is a quote from a Focus on the Family blog.
Strong-willed children have a genuine need to know why a task is worthy of their effort. Convince them, and you’ve won half the battle already. In large part, motivating a strong-willed child involves showing confidence in their intelligence, rather than insulting it. Even when they’ve slipped up, strong-willed children want freedom to choose how to remedy the situation in the way they think best.
In children’s ministry we deal with all types of personalities, and I have found over the years that the children labelled as “strong-willed” often were the ones with whom I could have the deepest most intelligent conversations about spiritual matters. These kids really think about what they have been taught. They don’t take things at face value. If it doesn’t make sense to them, they need to be persuaded from the Word so they understand things from God’s perspective.
Read the full article here. https://www.focusonthefamily.ca/content/what-sets-them-off-understanding-your-strong-willed-child
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