Christian fathers who want to effectively parent their children should consider what might not be immediately obvious: the daily habits they develop around waking and sleeping, eating, conversing, and their phones.
That’s the message that Christian author and attorney Justin Whitmel Earley has for dads as outlined in his book Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms.
“We become our habits and our children become us,” Earley told CBN News in a recent interview.
He says the daily routines we often unconsciously fall into deeply affect our children. “Our habits of the household are one of the most significant parts of our children’s spiritual formation.”
Earley examines 10 rhythms in the book: waking, mealtimes, discipline, screentime, family devotions, marriage, work, play, conversation, and bedtime.
He told CBN News, he did not think intentionally about all these areas in his early years of parenting his four boys.
“I was regularly yelling my kids to bed in the evening and I was realizing that I had habits around the household, which despite anything else I taught them and said about God and the Bible and the Christian life, the feel of living with me was an entirely
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