The Power of Effectively Training Up A Child

Taking shoes off by the piano

A mum taught her little 3 year old girl and her friends to take their shoes off and put them near the piano so that none of them would trip over them and fall. 

Now 21 years old, the young woman visited her mother and took her shoes off near the piano, without even realizing what she had done. The mother secretly treasured that unconscious action realizing that the training she had given her daughter almost two decades ago was now automatic to her.

I love the ancient proverb that says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.“

Good training and bad training, both get ingrained in our children. When they become adults, it’s very difficult to undo the years of training as a child.

Amazing nurse, Pat Chaney, RN, told me this true story of how she trained her granddaughter. 

About the Author

Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin.

Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.

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