The original PERFECT parent is God Almighty. Parenting with boundaries, because crossing boundaries produce consequences. He told Adam to eat freely of every tree in the garden except not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, because God knew that man has to make a choice to trust Him (God) or trust himself (Man and everyone outside of godly counsel). Notice how God said that there were TWO trees in the midst of the garden of Eden, The tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil were STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER. The serpent spoke to Eve in such a way that had her focus on the only tree he wanted her to focus on, which was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life isn’t ever mentioned by the serpent (even though, one again, the two trees stood in the midst in the garden.) The Word of God teaches us that Satan will never give Jesus (Tree pf Life) as an option, he only wants you focusing on what you cannot have (AND FOR VERY GOOD REASON). Teaching children God’s Word early on teaches them responsibility and to TRUST their parent who are led by the Lord. Ye must be Born-again according to John 3:3 to understand the eternal value of what was just shared To God be all the Glory, Honor, and Praise!

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Where did this child get the idea from day 1 that climbing/jumping on furniture was in any way appropriate?? If it takes 100 times of telling them no and walking across the room to removing them from the situation until they learn, that’s what ‘successful parenting’ is. its YOUR job. You, as a parent, are doing your child a huge disservice by failing to teach them to respect and take care of things — most especially when they are a guest in someone else’s home. There are behaviors okay for inside and jumping, running and climbing are for outside. Getting a mini trampoline is enabling inappropriate behavior and a parent cop-out and doesn’t require the heavy lifting it takes to teach a child civilized indoor behavior. Successful parenting is about setting boundaries and teaching manners, and love them unconditionally—and I promise they will love you back even if you make them mad. It doesn’t matter if they like jumping inside all over your house, it’s a matter of good parenting and teaching appropriate behavior…unless of course, the parents are uncivilized adults who also roughhouse, jump on and destroy $1000 sofas and walk on $500 coffee tables at home and anyone they visit and think it’s okay.