Posts Tagged ‘Train up child’

• Dressing modestly and appropriately.

  Date: 2008.11.19 | Category: Christian, God, Scripture, Train up a child | Response: 2

  Raising two girls, with the goal for them to be, all that they can be in Christ, brings up the subject of modest dress.  It may sound very old fashioned or totally unfashionable to some, but the point here is that it has NOTHING to do with fashion but has everything to do with dressing in a way that pleases God and does not cause others to be tempted to stumble.

  If we were to rewind about 100 years, what our children (and most of society) wear now would be classed as underwear.  That to me is disturbing, how quickly things have degraded.  Now, I’m not going to start telling my girls that they must dress in constrictive layers, as our hot climate just doesn’t allow for that and I think it’s over reactive.  But I do teach them to wear clothes that fit properly, look girlie and are not tight or revealing.  I know my girls are only young, but I’m not going to let them dress how the world tells them to until their early teens then suddenly throw a fit over things like mini skirts and tight, barely there tops.   “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” Proverbs 22:6

  (As a side note – I do not agree with this new “tweens” label and the poor little children feeling that they have to begin to dress like teenagers. It steals their innocents and pressures them to follow trends.)

  We should all dress in the way we have been convicted to through the Word.

  For us it is modestly, not causing others to stumble.

  What prompted me to write this post?  Well the other day I was looking for a simple A-line skirt pattern to make for the girls (rare as hens teeth out there!).  Then today I was reading through my blogroll (as I do daily) and the Maxwell Family Blog has a 7th part to a series which addresses how ambassadors should dress.  I recommend you read it.