Loving Our Kids on Purpose: Making a Heart-To-Heart Connection

by Danny Silk

amazing ability to understand the root causes of social and behavioral issues of anyone I have ever encountered in my 30 years of working with people. Our team has been encouraging

shift in my thinking and behavior toward my world. She mentioned to me that she had connected with a center in Golden, Colorado, called the Cline-Fay Institute. It was there that she received help with her first adoptive son, who was diagnosed RAD. This center specialized in creating a bond between severely abused children and their caregivers and parents. She then explained to me something called Love and Logic. This was the first I’d ever heard of Love

“Is that the only tool you’ve got?”

Unfortunately, many of us, whether believers or not, continue to raise our children according to an Old Testament paradigm.

In the New Covenant, God relates to the believer in a new way, through writing His “law on our hearts and minds.” When the law is written on our hearts and minds and when God Himself dwells in us, we no longer need to be controlled from the outside, because we have the capability and responsibility to control ourselves—to tell ourselves what to do and to make ourselves do it.