LESSON 50
How You Fit Make Your Family Happy?—Part 2
Pikin na gift from Jehovah. E want make papa and mama care for this gift. Jehovah don give advice to help papa and mama do this one. This advice fit still help pikin them to make their family happy.
1. Which advice Jehovah don give papa and mama?
Jehovah want make papa and mama love their pikin them and spend plenty time with them. E still want make papa and mama protect their pikin them from danger and use advice from Bible train them. (Proverbs 1:8) E tell papa them say: “Make wuna de teach and train [wuna pikin them] . . . the way wey Jehovah want.” (Read Ephesians 6:4.) Jehovah go dey happy if papa and mama follow e direction when them de train their pikin them, and e no want make they give this work to another person.
2. Which advice Jehovah give pikin them?
Jehovah tell pikin them say: “Make wuna de obey wuna papa and mama.” (Read Colossians 3:20.) When pikin them respect and obey their papa and mama, they go make them happy and make Jehovah happy. (Proverbs 23:22-25) Jesus show fine example for this one when e be small pikin. Na true say Jesus dey perfect, but e still obey e papa and mama even though say they no dey perfect.—Luke 2:51, 52.
3. How wuna fit near God as family?
If you be papa or mama, we know say you want make your pikin love Jehovah the way you love Jehovah. How you fit do this one? Na to follow wetin Bible talk say: “You must use [the word of Jehovah] teach your pikin them and talk about them when you sitdown for your house and when you de waka for road.” (Deuteronomy 6:7) The word “teach” for here mean to repeat something. So, you must always de repeat something to your pikin so that e go fit remember-am. This verse mean say make you always de look for chance to talk to your pikin them about Jehovah. E good to arrange time every week for the whole family to study Bible together. If you no get pikin, you go still gain if you arrange time every week to study Bible.
LEARN MORE THINGS
Learn about some things wey fit make everybody for family dey safe and happy.
4. Train your pikin them with love
To train pikin fit no dey easy. But how Bible fit help? Read James 1:19, 20, and talk about this questions:
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How papa and mama fit show love when them de talk with their pikin them?
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Why e no good make papa or mama correct e pikin when the papa or the mama de vex? a
5. Protect your pikin them
To protect your pikin them, e dey important to talk to each of them about sex. This one fit no easy. Play the VIDEO, and talk about the questions for under.
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Why e de hard some papa and mama to talk to their pikin about sex?
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How some papa and mama don succeed to talk to their pikin about sex?
As Bible don talk before, this world wey Satan de control de bad more-more. Read 2 Timothy 3:1, 13, and talk about this question:
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Some of the wicked people wey verse 13 talk about de do things about sex with pikin them. So why e dey important make papa and mama de teach their pikin them about sex and teach them how to protect theirself from this wicked people?
You know?
Jehovah Witness don make plenty books, videos and other things to help papa and mama teach children about sex and protect them from wicked people. For example, check:
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Teach Your Pikin Good Sense (video)
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“How You Fit Teach Your Pikin About Sex” (Awake! No. 5 2016)
6. Respect your papa and mama
Pikin them and young people fit show respect for their papa and mama for the way them de talk to them. Play the VIDEO, and talk about the questions for under.
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Why e dey important for pikin them to talk to their papa and mama with respect?
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How pikin them fit talk to their papa and mama for way wey show say they respect them?
Read Proverbs 1:8, and talk about this question:
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How pikin them go behave when their papa and mama tell them wetin they go do?
7. Worship Jehovah together as family
The families of Jehovah Witness de keep some particular time every week to worship God together. Wetin they fit do for this family worship? Play the VIDEO, and talk about the questions for under.
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How family fit de do their Family Worship everytime?
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Wetin papa or mama fit do so that everybody for family go enjoy family worship?—See the first picture for this lesson.
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Wetin fit make-am hard for wuna to study together as family?
For Israel before, Jehovah talk say make family de always talk about e Word. Read Deuteronomy 6:6, 7, and talk about this question:
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How you fit follow this advice?
Some things wey wuna fit do for family worship:
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Prepare for congregation meetings.
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Read and talk about one Bible story wey your family go enjoy.
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If you get pikin them, download or print from jw.org things wey children fit do.
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If you get young people, choose article about young people for jw.org.
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Make wuna act one Bible story together.
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Make wuna watch and talk about one video for jw.org.
SOME PEOPLE DE TALK SAY: “Bible really hard for pikin them to understand.”
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Wetin you go talk?
WETIN THIS LESSON TEACH
Jehovah want make papa and mama love, train, and protect their children; make children respect and obey their parents; and make family de join worship God together.
Wetin You Don Learn
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How papa and mama fit train and protect their pikin them?
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How pikin them fit show respect for their papa and mama?
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Wetin family go gain if they arrange particular time every week to worship God together?
LEARN OTHER THINGS
Which lessons fit help your pikin now to be better person when e grow?
“Six Lessons Wey Pikin Them Need to Learn” (Awake! No. 2 2019)
Learn some advice wey Bible give to people wey de care for their old papa and mama.
“Wetin Bible Talk About How to Care for Our Old Papa and Mama?” (E dey for jw.org)
See wetin help one man wey no know how to train pikin succeed to train e pikin them.
Learn how papa them fit be better friend to their sons.
“How Papa Them Fit Dey Close to Their Sons?” (The Watchtower, November 1, 2011)
a For Bible, the word “correct” fit mean to teach, guide, and help pikin to change the bad thing wey e de think and how e de behave. E no mean say the papa or mama go dey harsh or wicked to the pikin.—Proverbs 4:1.