5   Honor your father and your mother

Simple Meaning:  Respect and love Parents and God I learn obedience I have parents and loving caregivers whose job it is to keep me safe. I can only be safe if I listen to them and obey what they say. When I do what they say my life is happier and safer. God gives us other adults to help us learn obedience when we are young so that when we are old we are trained to listen to Him. Ask God to help you learn to obey  your parents with a joyful heart.

"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me." Mathew 10:37

It's not always easy to honor your father or mother. God has given us special adults to help us to learn how to honor him to teach us obedience.

• Learning obedience and respect helps us:
• Have good relationships
• Keep a job and boss happy

Keep happier ourselves.

Other FASD Christian focused ideas:
Basics | Authority | Forgiveness | Structure | Freedom 

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Webweaver notes: I am a Christian so I sought the Lord in prayer over these issues...and the thought came to me to deeply teach the 10 commandments. These were BIG rules...God's rules...and my FASD child loves rules she can hold onto to keep her safe... The other thing I realized is she only obeys the rules WHEN she understands them and knows they are for real. So we took one commandment a week, and the whole family in all our actions really focused on all the details of it...BEAR FALSE WITNESS...lying, gossip, exaggeration...Check out the lessons plans above.  Results...my child decided to live her life based on the 10 Commandments....The good news...she is much happier and safer. The bad news...If anyone exaggerates or tells a story a bit differently than she sees it...we are publically announced that we are lying and she tells her side of the story which can be VERY different than what we remember....